Hmm nice that he's not entirely relying on the Siegenthaler incident and has
quoted something beyond 2007. But his reliance on a 2009 Daily Mail story
about 20,000 editors vetting changes via flagged revisions
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208941/Free-edit-Wikipedia-appoint…
Does
leave me wondering how much he really understands the pedia, and whether
perhaps he gives preferential treatment to sources he agrees with over those
he doesn't. Core to his critique is the idea that highly active editors who
do most edits must perforce be leftwing, which rather misses the point that
the fixers of typos and reverters of vandalism are not necessarily the
editors who add all the content.
I for one have no problem with the idea that Conservapedia will often be to
the right of us, or Liberapedia to the left
http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Now a thoughtful critique that
compared us to both of those and also to reality would be interesting, but a
Conservative criticising us for being less Conservative than
Conservapedia.... It would be worrying if we didn't seem relatively Liberal
compared to them.
As for the Che Guevara article, as well as detailing his marital
infidelities it describes him as "feared for his brutality and ruthlessness"
and details why. It also recounts an incident of him killing someone in cold
blood. Economic incompetence "Whatever the merits or demerits of Guevara’s
economic principles, his programs were
unsuccessful.[130]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara#cite_note-Ke…
Guevara's
program of "moral incentives" for workers caused a rapid drop in
productivity and a rapid rise in absenteeism". Lastly an overly
confrontational attitude that failed to engage the Bolivians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara Multiple separate and sourced
criticisms that to my mind make this far more balanced than David Swindle
claims.
WSC
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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