[WikiEN-l] Conservapedia

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"Steve Bennett" wrote

>Or does it imply that
> a conservative stance is actually a neutral one, and therefore that
> Wikipedia is biased simply because it does not adopt that same
> conservative point of view?

There is this basic point: the NPOV concept is more subtle than the concept of 'bias', as is freely thrown around in analysis of media. In fact 'bias' is a really bad concept to use for WP; it in practice application often amounts to people reading down the article to the first thing they object to, and trying to get it edited out.

Charles

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