[WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

[Ken Arromdee]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, The Cunctator wrote:
>> Oh, certainly, left wing blogs are attacking the Kochs. And awareness among
> hard-core political activists and junkies is probably pretty high.

There you go.

> But we're talking a very small percentage of the US population.
>
> There are only a few thousand regular editors on en.wp. There really aren't
> that many people who edit Wikipedia. And [[David H. Koch]] for example is
> semi-protected. So we're talking about a handful of editors.
>
> There are big differences between the hypothetical potential pool of people
> capable of editing Wikipedia, the pool of people interested in doing so, the
> people with the experience and ability to do so effectively, etc.

It's true that only a certain number of people would bias a Koch article
against the Koch's.  It's also true that this can be said for virtually any
article where there is danger of political bias.  By your reasoning nobody
should ever have to worry about political bias anywhere on Wikipedia.

Some people do like to believe that no outsider should ever worry about
political bias on Wikipedia.  If so, there's not much I can say to convince
you except to point out that you have an inflated idea of how well Wikipedia
works.  But if there's ever any article which is a valid concern, surely
the Koch article has to be one of them.  It's a BLP on a subject that is
routinely the target of the left; about the only way it could be worse is
to be about Obama or Bush (and those are so high profile that the danger is
probably less, anyway.)