[Wikipedia-l] Re: NPOV

[Ray Saintonge]

Tomasz Wegrzanowski 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.
>
This is not unusual.  Outsiders can sometimes look at another country 
more objectively.  E.g. de Tocqueville on democracy in America; Burke on 
the revolution in France, etc.   Problematic native editors are not 
limited to Poland

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