[Wikipedia-l] From Romanian Wikipedia, the Nazi Encyclopedia

Ronald Chmara ron at Opus1.COM
Mon Apr 16 00:19:28 UTC 2007


On Apr 15, 2007, at 7:51 AM, Francis Tyers wrote:

>
> Imagine a Wikipedia where the admins are either uncaring, trolls or
> hopelessly biased. Thats what you're dealing with, and thats why
> articles such as
>
> http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comunismul_%C3%AEn_lume_%C5%9Fi_evreii
> "World Communism and the Jews"
>
> still exist after months.

Wow. Rarely does Godwin have such a blatant real-life exception...  
The online "sources" for that article are mostly in english, BTW, and  
you can gather some perspective about their publishers at their sites:
1. http://www.stormfront.org/
2. http://wake-up-america.net/
3. http://usa-the-republic.com/
4. http://www.jewwatch.com/
5. http://www.marxists.org/
6. http://www.asymetria.org/

The article doesn't seem to exactly have an unbiased set of sources,  
or even a wide range of biased sources, representing differing  
perspectives on the article's topic, which could be detrimental to  
the pillar of NPOV.

Pillars are all wikipedia, not just language spaces, right? http:// 
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Neutral_point_of_view

In the EN space, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#Extremist_sources would certainly be a  
criteria that be applied to this article.

Is there a similar policy or guideline spelled out in the RO space?

-Bop



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