Posted on 03/04/2007 10:00:30 PM PST by lqclamar
Excellent! I'll ping you on my next Waste Management bash.
Wikipedia is a nice source of info, but anyone who relies on it as THE source is naive. There are plenty of sources against which the info in Wikipedia can be verified if one is so inclined.
It's gone.
Wow, they went and did it.
What a bunch of jerks.
LOL. I would definitely join you.
There's a growing list here:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Examples_of_Bias_in_Wikipedia
I wonder how long it takes Putin and his pals to delete the survivors and relatives themselves?
Complaining about the use of 'foreign words' such as 'favoured' and 'labour'? ROTFLMAO.
You are complaining about Wikipedia and then saying sites such as Conservapedia don't have bias? I was curious and looked up Palestine on conservapedia.com and it states:
Palestine is a politically-unrecognised region of the Middle East that includes Israel.
Nope, no Bias there. LOL.
Nope, no Bias there. LOL.
You might study a bit of history on the subject. The British mandate in the middle east consisted of Palestine (a currently politically unrecognized region of the ME that includes Israel - and Gaza and the West Bank) and the Trans Jordan (which includes the present state of Jordan).
Where is the bias or inaccuracy in the original statement?
Lefties do have to cover up for each other.
The list I gave you contains 32 different instances of bias, some substantial such as anti-Christian terminology and anti-capitalist leanings. Yet you choose to make your case around the most trivial of the 32 charges while pretending as if the others don't exist.
You are complaining about Wikipedia and then saying sites such as Conservapedia don't have bias?
Would you mind showing me where I said Conservapedia was not biased? Oh, wait. You can't since I never did. You just made that last bit up yourself.
A lot of the others are quite trivial also. For example complaining about the use of 'BCE'. If Wikipedia is as biased as you say, there wouldn't be a need to even include these examples as filler material in the critique.
Would you mind showing me where I said Conservapedia was not biased? Oh, wait. You can't since I never did. You just made that last bit up yourself.
You are complaining about Wikipedia bias and then point to another site. That would imply your reference site would in some way be better than the previous site you are criticizing. I see no evidence of that.
Like it or not, 'Palestine' IS politically recognized by a large number of states. Similarly, Israel is also 'politically-unrecognized' by a number of countries. We might not agree with it, but that doesn't change the facts. Ignoring the world doesn't change it.
What do you consider to be a 'large number'?
I disagree. BCE is a term used exclusively by the Politically Correct left. It serves absolutely no other purpose than to take the name Christ out of the dating system, even though it is still based on Christ. Wikipedia's preference for the term is a clear indicator of their endorsement of that position.
You are complaining about Wikipedia bias and then point to another site. That would imply your reference site would in some way be better than the previous site you are criticizing.
Not really. By linking to a specific page on another site that listed some of the problems with Wikipedia I did nothing more than direct you to the content of that list of problems. It is nothing less and nothing more. Nowhere did I endorse Conservapedia as a whole, nor did I ever claim it was unbiased. That inference is entirely a figment of your imagination.
Their declaration was immediately recognized by Arabs, commies, and third world crapholes in Africa but little more. The only countries even close to 1st world that formally recognize the so-called Palestinian state are Poland and the Czech Republic. Every civilized nation on earth deals with them informally through the PLA.
If these are the types of things that cause problems in your life, then you are in pretty good shape.
Have you seen this article The Onion posted about Wikipedia last summer? If not, it ought to give you a smile.
Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence
Founding Fathers, Patriots, Mr. T. Honored
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902
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