Yes, I'm sure a lot of people feel that way. Other people would like to be able to judge for themselves. Of course the extract is about the founder (who incid

Yes, I'm sure a lot of people feel that way. Other people would like to be able to judge for themselves. Of course the extract is about the founder (who incidentally is not part of the project anymore), that's exactly why it's controversial and politically charged—i.e. the exact situation when Wikipedia is least reliable. Edit: for instance, the linked article has "Semi-Protected" status because: > "there is a significant amount of disruption or vandalism from new or unregistered users, or to prevent sockpuppets of blocked or banned users from editing, especially when it occurs on biographies of living persons who have had a recent high level of media interest." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy#semi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy#se...