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The face mask article example you gave is actually one of the ones which would be less affected by established editor bias as there would be more editors from d
by actuator 5y ago
The face mask article example you gave is actually one of the ones which would be less affected by established editor bias as there would be more editors from different regions participating in editing it.
Moreover claims by health organisations like WHO can be used to prove or disprove the efficacy of masks. But this is a luxury articles that are dealing with established authorities publishing information have.
Articles on persons and social issues tend to mostly not have any such authority and the debate is mostly generated through opinion.
- ajross 5y agoDo you have an example? I mean, I'm sure there's a terrible-but-forgotten-and-ignored page in there, but in my experience Wikipedia's rules about citation and notability work very well to limit expressions of opinion in the pages. Are you absolutely sure you aren't just expressing the effect I noted? You got mad because a page listed facts, but not the "right" facts?
- actuator 5y agoNo, I am fine with the facts being listed and with the page in contention, I wasn't even discussing the presence or omission of the fact. My concern was with the weightage the said fact had in the overall article. The weightage of the said issue in the summary and article, seems to far outweigh what it deserved.