Delirium wrote:
Well, in principle, *all* our articles should be
pretty decent, but we
have nearly a million of them in en: now, so that takes some time. Even
if you take only all high-profile articles, there's at least a few
thousand of them, so the fact that someone can find 2 of those thousands
that aren't very good at one particular moment in time isn't
particularly convincing.
*nod* Ok, I see your point. What I wonder is if we could identify a
particular class of articles and discover that they tend to be bad in a
particular way and then do something about it.
In the case in hand, we have "Bill Gates" and "Jane Fonda" -- they
are
similar in that they are both living famous Americans who are
controversial. The problems with the articles are similar in that the
problem isn't so much bias or lack of factual accuracy, as it is bad
writing.
Are the biographies of other living famous Americans who are
controversial similarly godawful?
Here's a test: Bill Clinton, Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Ann Coulter
I wonder how those are, and I'll be studying them on the plane home
tomorrow....
/me goes to download and save.
--Jimbo