[WikiEN-l] Deletions - do we cut a bit of slack for the Third World

Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman at spamcop.net
Fri Feb 16 21:04:13 UTC 2007


On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:05:44 -0800 (PST), Ken Arromdee
<arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:

>This is a special case of a fundamental problem with Wikipedia: the demand
>for sources and notability produces a heavy bias towards things which are on
>the Internet and can be easily found.

It's called FUTON bias and it doesn't only affect Wikipedia.

Guy (JzG)
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