[Wikipedia-l] Anti-French sentiment

Jimmy Wales jwales at bomis.com
Fri Apr 25 12:09:10 UTC 2003


I think you've got the terminology backwards, but yeah, these articles
are both terrible.  (NPOV is good, POV is bad!)

"Anti-French sentiment in the United States" is a somewhat balanced
article, but is it _encyclopedic_?  At the very least, it needs a
better title, one more closely matching the contents, which are
strongly linked to current events.

I think there is a valid topic lurking here, but to be encyclopedic, I
think we need to place the current state of French-American relations
into the context of history.  America and France have had a love-hate
relationship for a very long time, and the cultural friction between
us is not simply the product of current events.

--Jimbo




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