It's always sad to see this cast as a left/right thing - or "Wikipedia has a
liberal bias". We equally have huge problems with right wing agenda's on
some articles. And most of the BLP issues aren't related to politics, but to
all manner of "sides" (sexuality,political,ethnic,historical and those are
the non-trivial examples).
Biographies are a mess; we have detailed criticism of fairly non-notable
people who've done nothing except piss off the wrong person once or twice.
And we have others who are so beloved of their followers that trying to
write any fair criticism is like pounding a brick wall.
With a lemon.
Tom
On 23 August 2011 12:11, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Here is an interesting article by David Swindle of
Front Page, about
Wikipedia's problems with biographies of living persons. Swindle sees it in
terms of a persistent left wing bias.
I won't pretend to agree with everything he says--it is not helpful to
compare Michael Moore to Ann Coulter or Keith Olbermann to Glenn Beck. The
gist of the article has merit, though. I think he makes some reasonable
points about the biographies of Noam Chomsky and that deceased poster child
for youth rebellion, Che Guevara.
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/23/how-the-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-1/
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