[Arkinsaw]

The problems you have pointed out are the reasons why the wikipedia (and the wiki concept in general) are irreparably flawed. Without SOME editorial process, wikis are, and can never be, no more reliable as information-sources than alt.conspiracy, Democratic Underground, or (dare I say it) FreeRepublic.

The world is too divided for there to be any neutral source. Wikipedia is a utopian dream, and like all utopian dreams, it is abused by the greedy, obnoxious, and closed-minded (human nature). The problem always is, that the utopians don't realize that their utopia is being ill-used until its too late.

The public is in a new age, they have to ingest a variety of sources and views and then judge them logically. Taking pieces here and there on their own. There is no neutral source. Wikipedia can claim to be neutral, but it is not, and cannot be. It bears the POV of its contributors no matter what its press releases say.

It is in fact, more dangerous because it claims to be neutral. I will say, that it is about as neutral as its majority liberal overseers can make it, given the fact that there are so few conservative voices there and that there are a great many liberal partisans there who don't hold "neutrality" in as high esteem as the project leaders.

[nothingnew]

The public is in a new age, they have to ingest a variety of sources and views and then judge them logically.

Good reply. I have found that using prejudice (in the true meaning of the word, not the left's bastardized version) and His gift of DISCERNMENT usually helps me in the understanding of almost anything.

FMCDH(BITS)

[halidecyphon]

I agree that wikipedia, like all sources of information, cannot escape bias completely. However they do not claim to be neutral. The wikipedia:neutral point of view policy merely is a statement of what the wikipedia should strive for.

[halidecyphon]

I agree that wikipedia, like all sources of information, cannot escape bias completely. However they do not claim to be neutral. The wikipedia:neutral point of view policy merely is a statement of what the wikipedia should strive for.