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Fair representation in election coverage on wikipedia? Guess again . . .

by Reader
Wikipedia claims it is a neutral source, is constantly ranting about being non-biased, yet on the pages for the Governor races they show only the images of the Dem and Republican at the top -- all others are ignored. I will document the sick absurdities that will arise as I take this on, just for the record.
640_ca_gov_race_image_3_candidates.jpg
This is the page after I inserted Laura Well's image into the template. The code for the box only puts a color banner on the R and D candidate, because it expects there will be no other, and doesn't know what to do when there is . . .

I will try to get the others in there too, Peace and Freedom's Stewart Alexander, but I expect I will not be allowed to even get that far, and it looks like the box is also not designed to know what to do with more than two boxes as it is . . .

The page is here --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gubernatorial_election,_2010

Discussion is here --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:California_gubernatorial_election,_2010

Laura's page is here --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Wells

Sterwart Alexander is here --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Alexander_(politician)

Others can be found on the main page at the top.
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