[WikiEN-l] Russian constitutional crisis of 1993

Fri Jul 23 17:12:04 UTC 2004

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.

Stan