[Wikipedia-l] Re: NPOV

[Mark Williamson]

Did you write [[m:How to deal with Poles]]?

Mark

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:25:08 +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski
<taw at users.sf.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 01:15:19AM -0700, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > Mr. Randombtr will be trusted less about Chinese history than Mr.
> > Uneducatedchinesefarmer, even though there is a possibility that Mr.
> > Randombtr has his Ph.D in Chinese history and has lived in China for
> > 20 years - after all, Mr. Uneducatedchinesefarmer is actually Chinese.
> > Even if he never saw a history textbook, or if he moved to the UK at
> > age 3 and never learnt much about Chinese history than some half
> > truth, half legend that his grandparents taught him (probably more
> > likely - uneducated Chinese farmers are unlikely to be editing on
> > en:), he is trusted disproportionately more because "he is Chinese".
> 
> You forgot one exception - at least on en, being Polish makes one
> considered less trustworthy about Polish history, not more.
>