Viajero wrote:
> Several of us were discussing the topic on the IRC channel in
> December (Anthere may remember this because she was one of
> them) and this question came up. One person said they thought
> WP (EN) had a pro-Israeli bias. Another said a pro-Palestinian
> bias. A third said neither POV was accurately represented.
In my experience bias is not the most serious problem in the
ME pages, it is ignorance. People think they know something
about the subject because they have some infantile propaganda
tract (or a collection of infantile web sites) and insist on
copying it into WP. Of course this is related to bias, but on
the other hand there have been people in WP with strong
political opinions who are nevertheless valuable contributors
on account of the depth of their knowledge.
Two knowledgable people with opposing biases can generally
write a good article even if the road is rocky. No number of
ignoramuses can write a good article regardless of their biases.
One of the surest marks of a problem editor is that they insist
on filling up articles with "quotations". I plan to write more
on this in the near future.
Zero.
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