[WikiEN-l] So what do we do about this?

[Philip Sandifer]

On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Guettarda wrote:

>
>
> I see. So saying "obviously you support election fraud" would be  
> appropriate
> too, and not "needlessly" inflammatory? Interesting.
>
>

I don't know how to answer this, except to say this. I have taught  
freshman composition at a respected university, focusing particularly  
on research. If one of my students handed me a paper that used those  
citations in that way, I would fail them. Regardless of whether there  
was election fraud, the article is a poorly written, POV mess. And it  
is not the place of Wikipedia to decide if there was election fraud -  
it's the place of Wikipedia to accurately describe the controversy  
surrounding it. A controversy that led to no successful challenges to  
the outcome of the election, and no lasting media coverage. Instead  
of this, though, we have 60,000 words of original research.

-Snowspinner