Judson Dunn wrote: > For your comedy pleasure :) > > http://xkcd.com/545/ >
Oddly, my first thought when I saw that was, 'but the coverage of the *event* would still be completely neutral'. You don't bias the coverage by declaring something like that, since the editing can still be completely NPOV while having an external influence. Unlike many other editors, I'm a (partially) trained journalist (siren song of web development lured me away from school), and I edit under the influence of that training. It isn't non-neutral to edit for 'as few words as possible, and as close to a 5th grade reading level as the subject allows'. The result is that, while there will be meta-reasons for editing as is done, the *coverage* can still be completely neutral. This *entire* refutation popped into my head before I was even finished the comic the other day, and is mostly irrelevant, but this list is the only place where I can geek like this. S. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
