Marc Riddell wrote:
I don't believe that is the point. Rather, should Wikipedia (or anyone or anything associated with it) be constantly criticizing other sites - and, in the process, be calling attention to them. We are better than that.
It's not constant, it's only been for the past couple of days. And it's not "Wikipedia" that's doing the criticizing, since that would run afoul of NPOV, it's just a couple of Wikipedians. So the real question is "should some Wikipedians occasionally criticize other sites?"
My position is, why not? Seems like a reasonable human activity. Sometimes criticism is valuable, and sometimes it is deserved. Heck, we've got a list somewhere on Wikipedia itself (in the Wikipedia namespace mind you) where we keep a big list of errors Britannica has made that Wikipedia has corrected.
This seems like a rather minor thing to be getting worked up over.