[Campaigns-l] Going down the wrong path?

[Stephen Abbott]

What I find a *tad* disturbing is someone just created a list of "Corrupt
Politicians." (http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Corrupt_politicians).

It's not a coincidence that they are all from one party, considering the
political tenor of Washington these days. However, I thought we were aiming
for something different here -- a bit less ... predictable.

Unless we all want to see the next 500,000 words written on this Wikia be
disproportionately on that article's Talk page - debating who should and
should not be included on the list and why "your party is more corrupt than
mine", etc. - I humbly urge that someone delete it. Wikipedia already has
numerous "corruption" political pages (another issue, for another time, but
I'd make the same argument against those politically motivated pages.)

I also have to say I'm noticing other nasty trends, such as articles with
statements seemingly deliberately designed to provoke such as this in the
Terrorism article: "Terrorism is by no means a leading cause of death in the
U.S., however it recieves a disproportionate level of attention and
funding." That's an unadulterated biased opinion, with no counterbalance,
and it's not presented with other views for proper debate/discussion.
Frankly, I don't see how this particular article would help me decide which
party to support. It just gives me yet another CHAT BOARD on which to vent
my opinions. Why is that needed on the Internet? Why not a decent
presentation of views (it exists in other articles here) that give me a real
choice?

Since this is my first participation on the List, I want to say this is an
awesome concept, and I hope it isn't ruined in its execution. I agree that
FAIRNESS should be the goal, if not outright neutrality, though I must say I
do understand the need for netural descriptions in many cases.

Thanks, Jimbo, for starting this project!

- Stephen A.
User:Nhprman