[WikiEN-l] POV featured articles?

Thu Mar 10 14:04:24 UTC 2005

I think this occurs because the bias in the article is subtle and not
readily apparent to a casual reader. It looks good on its face and very
detailed.

Fred

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> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:13:28 +0000
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] POV featured articles?
> 
> I noticed that an article I considered POV just became a featured article:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Soviet_Union
> 
> I've marked it NPOV, and have made several improvements, including a couple I
> made before it achieved featured article status.
> 
> How do articles become featured articles?  I've read Wikipedia:Featured
> articles,
> and it talks about standards but not how the actual decision about the status
> is
> made.  I looked at the nomination page, and there were only 5 supporting
> votes,
> and zero opposing votes, before mine which I have just added after the fact.
> 
> I am not criticising those reviewers, they may not be sensitive to some of the
> selection biases that can occur within articles or may have been unfamiliar
> with the subject.
> 
> I am however surprised that an article can become featured without far wider
> review that hopefully would catch incompleteness or biases such as this.  I
> had
> seen contributions to featured articles cited as feathers in ones cap, so I
> thought
> the review must have been high.  Is there a minimum number of supporting
> votes that are required?
> -- Silverback
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