On 6/1/07, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Why aren't these categories being removed as blatant NPOV violation and incitement to more? Is NPOV up for a vote at CFD or something?
Because it turns out to be very hard to get these things deleted, in practice.
For the list articles themselves, for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish-American_politicians
I went one at random: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Gruening ...and not one mention of "Jew", "Jewish", or "Judaism" beside the infobox. The two online sources:
http://famousamericans.net/ernestgruening.com/ http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000508
Also have nothing indicating his religiion. Why aren't these articles just hammered for BLP concerns? Let alone the general lack of sourcing? Less than half the names have any sources at all. I've seen people scrub lists that were infinitely more trivial for lack of sourcing than BLP-related lists like this...
Regards, Joe http://www.joeszilagyi.com