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Talk:Examples of Bias in Wikipedia (view source)
Revision as of 13:20, July 25, 2007
, 13:20, July 25, 2007→Take a step back: A bias is unavoidable
Yes. You cannot cancel a wrong and hope to make a right when you yourself go about it a wrong way. The aim is to make this place somewhere with a conservative bias. Would you prefer your children read something with any bias? I know I'd want my children to read the facts, and then make up their mind. Other people have deliberately placed bias for children to read - either it be the protocols of the learned elders of zion in Saudi Arabia or Hitlers textbooks downgrading the Jews to mere mathematical aliens. Do you realise you share a precedent with some of the most horrible regimes of the modern era? [[User:Denzo|Denzo]] 08:46, 25 July 2007 (EDT)
Yes. You cannot cancel a wrong and hope to make a right when you yourself go about it a wrong way. The aim is to make this place somewhere with a conservative bias. Would you prefer your children read something with any bias? I know I'd want my children to read the facts, and then make up their mind. Other people have deliberately placed bias for children to read - either it be the protocols of the learned elders of zion in Saudi Arabia or Hitlers textbooks downgrading the Jews to mere mathematical aliens. Do you realise you share a precedent with some of the most horrible regimes of the modern era? [[User:Denzo|Denzo]] 08:46, 25 July 2007 (EDT)
:Yes, I would expect my children to read something with a bias, because a bias is unavoidable in many cases. But that doesn't prevent them reading the facts. You seem to think that facts and bias are mutually exclusive, but this is not necessarily so. In many cases it is impossible to present ''all'' the facts (they might even be infinite), and just the selection of which facts are presented is subject to bias. I have said before elsewhere that we have a bias towards accuracy and fairness. Do you think we should have that bias, or not? [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 09:20, 25 July 2007 (EDT)
== What if Wikipedia editors were to remove some instances of bias? ==
== What if Wikipedia editors were to remove some instances of bias? ==