User:Lokiloki

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[edit] Politics

Wikipedia is not a democracy, as has been stated elsewhere. But it definitely suffers from the tyranny of the majority. Indeed, on topics where a particular demographic is over-represented, it is difficult to find neutral, comprehensive, or accurate presentations of opposing viewpoints. Unless Wikipedia is willing to dedicate significant resources to "balance out" armies of POV editors slowly damaging the neutrality of multitudes of articles, well... I think all political or controversial topics should be scrapped. We should all discuss nitrogen, or photosynthesis, or Mars; and we should stop dedicating so much time to the back-and-forth of political debate, where even the simple creation of a sentence results in day-long strife.

To continue the relentless Partheon shots in just about every political topic risks great damage. The media will highlight how, for example, Politic XYZ is not represeted fairly, etc. And proponents of Politic XYZ will say, see, Wikipedia is crap... let's go and check out extreme-Politic-XYZ on some other Web site. Indeed: it is to the benefit of EVERYONE to present facts fairly, accurately, and without opinion. To do otherwise is a Pyrhhic victory.

And, remember, fair and neutral presentation of information requires more than just the basic facts. It requires careful analysis of sentence design, words used, appearance on the page, photographs used, quotations used, and so on.

As an example, in a recent article, it said "many countries are interested in this topic, including the United States and Iran." This sets-up a false comparison: it leads readers to believe that that topic has a good (US) and a bad (Iran) side. Better editing would include other neutral countries interested, or remove these specifics entirely.

And (add comment here if you like), what will happen when the POV pushers, particularly groups or agencies or divisions, HIRE their own little coterie of editors to do their will?