On 7/23/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
It's almost always used that way on Wikipedia. Terms like "critical review" or "critical appreciation" are more ambiguous, but "criticism" is pretty unambiguously negative.
Agreed. 'Criticism' sections and articles are pretty much always about negative criticisms; sometimes they are written by the opposition, and sometimes not (e.g. the [[Criticisms of Software Engineering]] is actually a pro- article, essentially there simply to rebut common criticisms).
Now it IS a big problem that sometimes the criticism of something weights an article too much - that is best solved with good editing and more facts.
-Matt