[WikiEN-l] Re: Russian constitutional crisis of 1993

[Anthere]

Geoffrey Burling wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, [ISO-8859-1] ?var Arnfj?r? Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> 
>>Any unbashed viewpoint hurts our credibility.
>>
>>On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:12:04 -0700, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Today's featured article is a delightful read, but strikes me as
>>>>terribly one-sided.  The adjectives applied to Yeltsin in this
>>>>conflict are consistently negative, and the advjectives applied to his
>>>>opponents are consistently positive.  The reality is much more
>>>>complex.
>>>>
>>>>It is unusual for  a featured article to be so problematic.
>>>>
>>>
>>>And the bulk of the content is from - you guessed it - 172! This
>>>is the hallmark of his style; while there are usually no gross
>>>misrepresentations of fact, the wording is so relentlessly slanted
>>>it would take a week to clean up, at the end of which he would just
>>>revert it all in one fell swoop. It's completely exasperating; I
>>>finally stopped looking at anything he touches, scrubbed it all
>>>out of my watchlist, and regained Wikipedia-nirvana.
>>>
>>>Even so, I still worry that the unabashed socialist viewpoint will
>>>hurt WP's credibility as an impartial recorder.
>>>
>>
> What is odd about this article in my eyes is that it appears not to have
> passed thru the normal process of being nominated, debated, then approved
> as a "Featured Article". I admit I made a rather quick search on the history
> pages of both the [[Wikipedia: Candidates for Featured Articles]] & the
> page in question, but one would think it would be that hard to find some
> trace of a discussion & approval.
> 
> Can someone supply a link to the nomination for this page, or otherwise
> explain how it gained featured status?
> 
> Geoff

Ahah ! a cabal to destabilize Wikipedia ? :-)