[WikiEN-l] Front Page on BLPs

[Thomas Morton]

He touches on some issues. We could probably quite easily counter them with
examples of right wing or conservative material that gets POV bombed.

Some of the bio's he is stretching the issue to be sure; perhaps more
analysis of events in these peoples life could be recorded (and certainly
those articles seem to require some reorganisation), but they don't really
whitewash anything. They are perhaps trying to be *neutral* and maybe going
a little too far. (Is this guy of a strong political persuasion, I get that
impression...)

The only really major problem he raises is Ismus, that needs a look at.

Tom


On 1 September 2011 18:51, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 August 2011 12:11, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> ...
>
> >
> >
> 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.
>
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