QUOTE(Noroton @ Mon 30th March 2009, 1:28am)
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I was one person suggesting splitting the discussion, and I still think it makes sense. What may or may not make sense (or be fair) is expecting you to address, at once, both criticisms of animal rights as a political issue and your own actions in editing Wikipedia. That's a lot to put on anyone's plate at once.
I made this point at the other thread in response to a comment by Gomi: The issue of whether someone with a point of view, even a strong point of view, is separate from whether or not that person is making a WP article biased. (It's also separate from whether that person is violating behavioral norms.) Whatever your positions are on animal rights, they're irrelevant to this thread. Anyone who wants to charge that a Wikipedia article is biased needs to provide evidence of that. I haven't seen that evidence presented. Given what I've seen in the "Animal rights" article, I'd say someone would have to show where the article ignores or wrongly emphasizes or de-emphasizes some essential part of the subject. No one has done so.
A couple of people here were saying that, in representing animal rights as an ownership issue (I forget what they said exactly, but it was something like that), I was misrepresenting animal rights and pushing my own POV, and structuring the articles in such a way as to make that POV prominent.
But I'm doing none of those things, and I was hoping if I explained some of the basic issues, people would see that.
If someone thinks the AR articles that I've worked on are POV, please give details of what's there and shouldn't be, or what's missing. The main [[animal rights]] article, for example -- I've worked hard on that to try to make it comprehensive. There's still stuff that needs to be added, but anyone reading it will get a fairly good idea of where the ideas came from, how they evolved, who the key players are, what they say, what the criticisms have been etc.
So what is actually wrong with it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights