Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Ed Poor A supporter of Jimbo's NPOV policy
Ah, the eternal debate over NPOV. =]
My current empirical theory is that on highly-controversial topics, Wikipedia converges on a sort of compromise consensus of the main editors on the topic. If you pick random stories, you can see that the slants are generally towards what you might expect given the sorts of people working on Wikipedia: rather strongly pro-civil-liberties, moderately anti-US (but with proper caveats usually mentioned), vaguely anti-religion, etc.
But, and I think it's an important point, I think we're coming closer than anyone else has so far. There are no neutral biographies of John Kerry that I'm aware of, and I think ours is as close as I've seen.
-Mark