Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-14 Thread Ryan Delaney
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 09:36, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to stop there, with a general observation - I think they're right on one big picture thing: Wikipedia has an editorial bias - our default neutrality is that of a moderately internationalist,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-14 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Charles Matthews wrote: #167 is the allegation that we fail to understand what the Tea Party guys are all about. AFAIK we don't claim to understand anything much, just to compile articles from sources. I think that as a serious response, this is disingenuous. People don't

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-14 Thread Ian Woollard
On 13/10/2010, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: I am concerned not so much with the specifics they are pointing out, but at a general trend that we may include more negatives about conservative positions and people than about liberal positions and people, which would be worth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-14 Thread Fred Bauder
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Charles Matthews wrote: #167 is the allegation that we fail to understand what the Tea Party guys are all about. AFAIK we don't claim to understand anything much, just to compile articles from sources. I think that as a serious response, this is disingenuous. People

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-14 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/10/2010, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: I am concerned not so much with the specifics they are pointing out, but at a general trend that we may include more negatives about conservative positions

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-14 Thread Charles Matthews
On 14/10/2010 20:36, Ken Arromdee wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Charles Matthews wrote: #167 is the allegation that we fail to understand what the Tea Party guys are all about. AFAIK we don't claim to understand anything much, just to compile articles from sources. I think that as a serious

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-14 Thread David Goodman
I think there have been some discussions at WP:RSN about whether it is a sufficiently reliable source for negative BLP. My own opinion would be that it is not, and neither is the Guardian. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: note Fox News is excluded from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-14 Thread Guettarda
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:26 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/10/2010, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: I am concerned not so much with the specifics they are pointing out, but