[WikiEN-l] Front Page on BLPs

[Tony Sidaway]

On 23 August 2011 12:11, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Here is an interesting article by David Swindle of Front Page, about
> Wikipedia's problems with biographies of living persons. Swindle sees it in
> terms of a persistent left wing bias.

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> http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/23/how-the-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-1/

For completeness, here is part 2 of David Swindle's series:

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/01/how-the-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-ii-coddling-progressives/

Here he focuses on what he thinks are "three unwritten rules that
pervade the treatment of most leftists on Wikipedia."

He summarises them as follows

[1] Quote feeble critics only so they can be rebutted.
[2] Give the Benefit of the Doubt to the Jew-Haters.
[3] Leave out the Embarrassing ‘Personal Life’ details.

As examples he cites the biographies of Al Gore, Al Sharpton and
Morris Dees, The first two will need no introduction, but the latter
of these was the relatively less well known founder of the Southern
Poverty Law Center.