On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:25:20PM +0000, Tomos at Wikipedia wrote:
Assuming that you are talking about English Wikipedia,
I guess
you could be right about the bias. But it doesn't mean everyone
is biased like those extremests described in the aritcle. At least
I know some American-born Americans highly critical of the
said bias in mainstream mass media.
And the opponents of the extremests may be unbiased as well.
Those who are highly interested in the matter may be more likely to
have a strong POV.
Some would say "Wikipedia is not" a place to discuss politics.
And with different biases, we can perhaps still work together. At
least some of us can.
The issue is that people with certain biases do whatever they want, and
when someone tries to deal with them, the person trying to correct the
bias is the one that either gets shouted down, and leaves the Wikipedia
voluntarily, or finally gets banned by Jimmy. So the bias stays in and
gets worse and worse.
The Judeocentrism article, for instance, is worded to give the
impression that if you believe there is such a thing, you are a frothing
at the mouth Jew hater. This is the state of the article after a flood
of protest saying the article shouldn't even exist, even though similar
articles existed on Christianity and Islam.
I was banned for trying to keep the article in existance through
peaceful and polite persistence. Something is very wrong with the
Wikipedia when a clear cut case of NPOV violation is encouraged in this
manner.
Whether SOME people are biased isn't the issue; the issue is whether
these people have the power to prevent others from correcting their bias
through means most foul and lacking in fairness.
Jonathan
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