Re: [Wikimedia-l] an observation on economic biases in Wikipedia

2018-05-12 Thread James Salsman
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 7:42 PM, Dennis During wrote: > > At the level of generalization of the cited statement in the WP article, it > is pretty much impossible to approach objectivity in economics articles. Dennis, for what reason(s) do you believe that? The statement is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] an observation on economic biases in Wikipedia

2018-05-08 Thread Dennis During
At the level of generalization of the cited statement in the WP article, it is pretty much impossible to approach objectivity in economics articles. I doubt that an instance of bias should lead us to include the kind of unscientific economics that we happen to find agreeable. I specifically

[Wikimedia-l] an observation on economic biases in Wikipedia

2018-05-08 Thread James Salsman
The more I survey different language wikipedias, the more I am convinced an effort at the chapters level is needed to address this problem: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2018-April/006256.html It occurred to me that this Max Roser video might help: A Selfish Argument for