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This continuous lowering of the "delete or not" bar should be pretty obvious to anybody who has followed Wikipedia for some time. I used to be of the opinion t
by kolmogorovcmplx 16y ago
This continuous lowering of the "delete or not" bar should be pretty obvious to anybody who has followed Wikipedia for some time.
I used to be of the opinion that it was justified, but has realised lately that it has become a tool for political censorship. Some of the editing cliques have become very adept at suppressing unwanted views with dubious, but to many persuasive, application of the verifiability and notability policies.
- tptacek 16y agoIt should be very, very easy for you to produce a URL illustrating this phenomenon for those of us who are skeptical of it.
- kolmogorovcmplx 16y agoI have seen this happen on several subjects, but as it has been over a year since I actively participated and followed Wikipedia internals, I cannot immediately give you a particular example. My observation of this abuse of policy has been as a bystander by the way. I've never actively edited any articles on these subjects. Typical subjects where there most certainly are well organized and ideologically motivated editorial cliques include US foreign policy, anything to do with Israel, Turkey and its history, anything relating to Islam etc. Abuse of the notability policy is just one, but very effective, tool for censoring and controlling the content though.