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of the issues that has most concerned critics is that articles are
often "locked", and written only by one editor/sysop - no visitors may
edit the article whatsoever. For example, the article on homosexuality
has been essentially written by one editor, named "Conservative", and
the page has been locked for at least a year. This is true of other
articles, for example the articles on President Barack Obama, Prof.
Richard Dawkins, the Theory of Evolution, and breast cancer, among many
others. The concern is that these articles contain not only opinion,
but also a considerable number of factual inaccuracies which cannot now
be corrected, since the "owner" of the article is the only one who
writes the article, and only other "sysops" can edit it at all. In most
cases, appeals to include information in those articles on their "talk
pages" is rebuffed - if not simply deleted, to avoid the appearance of
dissent. These articles are presented as "encyclopedic", yet are
clearly just personal essays with no other input allowed. |