On 15/02/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
At present, the wikipedia is far from neutral here; for example, the Muhammad in Encyclopedia Britannica has only a single veiled image in 18 pages, whereas the wikipedia has 4, and most of them are unveiled. I don't think you can find many articles on Muhammad with lots of images in; or nobody has so far.
"Neutral" does not mean "what everybody else does",
Actually yes, it really does. The policy states:
"All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV), representing fairly and, as much as possible, without bias all significant views (that have been published by reliable sources)."
So in order to keep these images in the article we need to show that their presence represents ALL SIGNIFICANT VIEWS without bias. You can bias an article very well adding by adding more of anything than other sources show; as you well know, and that seems to be what is happening here.