[WikiEN-l] Severely unbalanced articles, especially BLPs

[Gallagher Mark George]

G'day Christiano,

> New essay for people to think about, mostly not written by me:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Coatrack
> 
> This can be something of a problem: sourced and maybe even true - 
> but so 
> unbalanced, which NPOV doesn't allow, as to be misleading.

Leaving aside for the moment the fact that that article is very poorly written, I'm not convinced that this is a big problem, or even that the issue it describes occurs except in the rarest cases --- cases we can deal with using Common Sense and without referring to a poorly-written essay.


Cheers,

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