Any unbashed viewpoint hurts our credibility.
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:12:04 -0700, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Today's featured article is a delightful read,
but strikes me as
terribly one-sided. The adjectives applied to Yeltsin in this
conflict are consistently negative, and the advjectives applied to his
opponents are consistently positive. The reality is much more
complex.
It is unusual for a featured article to be so problematic.
And the bulk of the content is from - you guessed it - 172! This
is the hallmark of his style; while there are usually no gross
misrepresentations of fact, the wording is so relentlessly slanted
it would take a week to clean up, at the end of which he would just
revert it all in one fell swoop. It's completely exasperating; I
finally stopped looking at anything he touches, scrubbed it all
out of my watchlist, and regained Wikipedia-nirvana.
Even so, I still worry that the unabashed socialist viewpoint will
hurt WP's credibility as an impartial recorder.