[WikiEN-l] Conservapedia

Guettarda guettarda at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 15:10:27 UTC 2007


FYI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today4_wikipedia_20070307.ram

On 3/7/07, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/7/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Actually they don't seem to define what their counterpart to NPOV is.
> > For example, is it ok to have an article which states all the horrible
> > things that communists have done, and none of the horrible things
> > Americans have done? In any normal, even "conservative" encyclopaedia,
> > this would still be a glaring omission. If you don't define some kind
> > of bounds or some central position, the whole thing just becomes
> > propaganda or worse.
>
> Seriously people, it's called Conservapedia! What do you expect, a
> balanced and neutral look at the world? I mean, any time you name
> something after a political movement, it's going to be biased. I'm not
> going to be that trusting of the
>
> sushi-eating-cappucino-drinking-homosexual-academic-liberal-hollywood-elite-pedia
> either, at least not on stuff like religious topics (even though that
> particular tomb would describe me as a person fairly well ;).
>
> --Oskar
>
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