[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, a world without borders with borders?

K P kpbotany at gmail.com
Sun Jun 17 22:54:33 UTC 2007


On 6/17/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/17/07, Eugene van der Pijll <eugene at vanderpijll.nl> wrote:
> > Multiple sources for each fact is an even better sign of non-NPOV. It
> > means someone is trying too hard to include some fact.
>
> That's a bit of a leap.  What it generally does mean is that inclusion
> of a fact was at some point contested.  Whether the person or persons
> doing the contesting was reasonable to do so cannot be thus
> determined.
>
> -Matt
>
I have to go with Eugene on this one--it doesn't have to mean this,
but is in fact often done like this on Wikipedia.  I call it steaming
pile of facts.

KP



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