[Wikipedia-l] Collective POV ("systemic bias") rampant
Phil Sandifer
sandifer at sbcglobal.net
Sat Nov 27 08:08:41 UTC 2004
And let's not forget the most rampant bias in Wikipedia, one that
affects all of the language Wikipedias, namely the belief that it is
worthwhile to present all sides of an issue.
Which is to say that the neutral perspective is itself a bias. As the
NPOV policy is pretty explicit about.
I'm pretty willing to accept the fact that there is no way to write
without writing to some cultural context. We cannot simply imagine a
culturally unbiased perspective and then write from it. This systemic
bias, real as it may be, is unavoidable. As such, I am unable to
seriously consider it a problem.
-Snowspinner
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