tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post8375579666173894521..comments2024-03-13T12:14:28.146-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: Wikipedia's Leftward SlantWinston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-36100189356821856962017-03-13T06:58:28.932-04:002017-03-13T06:58:28.932-04:00PM,
I agree that Wikipedia often seems pretty goo...PM, <br />I agree that Wikipedia often seems pretty good to me when it doesn't impinge on politics...but often I have no expertise in what I'm reading about, so it's hard to say. <br /><br />The philosophical stuff that isn't political is sometimes awful, sometimes pretty good, though, I'll say. <br /><br />AB,<br />LOL damn it...you are right. I got all caught up in the talk Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-81807599730070703192017-03-12T23:43:11.495-04:002017-03-12T23:43:11.495-04:00She is described as an advocate of one or another ...She is described as an advocate of one or another of (modifier) feminist positions many, many times in the course of the article. The talk seems to be entirely about whether she should have been described as a feminist with no modifier in the first paragraph. It kind of seems to me that the discussion does a good job of establishing that calling her a feminist with no modifier would be Protagorashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12645042531440559735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-65958568283967328472017-03-12T23:33:53.170-04:002017-03-12T23:33:53.170-04:00Yeah, there are certain editors at Wikipedia who d...Yeah, there are certain editors at Wikipedia who do not do a good job. That said, I don't usually run into them, since I'm looking up historical or technical (math, statistics, physics) stuff. On the latter, Wikipedia is very good indeed--roughly the equivalent of a first year college textbook.Pete Mackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675790226494153847noreply@blogger.com