[WikiEN-l] Pakistani politicians and systemic bias

charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Fri Nov 9 09:52:08 UTC 2007


Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote

> Or is it really too much
> to ask that the English Wikipedia actually provide some usable
> English sources to back up an article?

Yes. Your argument shows how bad the systemic thing is. Notability is a bad criterion, just not easy to replace by anything snappy. Significance in the world at large is poorly represented by publication in English, except in a few fields. This is roughly where we came in, on systemic bias.

Charles

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