[WikiEN-l] Russian constitutional crisis of 1993

Fri Jul 23 17:22:57 UTC 2004

Any unbashed viewpoint hurts our credibility.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:12:04 -0700, Stan Shebs <shebs at 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.
> 
> Stan
> 
> 
> 
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