Talk:Point of Order (film)

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[edit] Robert Duncan and Emile de Antonio

The sentence below was removed, but I believe it is absolutely worth noting:

"It is of note that both Duncan and de Antonio were politically leftists or Marxists, which were the primary targets of McCarthy in the 1950s."

I find it very interesting to know the political background of the people who chose what footage would be included in the 93 minutes, which represents less than 1% of the total footage available.

I notice a disturbing trend for editors to overstep their role and almost arbitrarily exclude information that could very well be meaningful to someone else. What's the point of deleting small additions to articles, particularly to articles that are already brief? Are we trying to save space?--we have endless amounts of it here. Are we trying to save a little time?--I'd rather spend the extra minute looking over additional material and decide for myself what is relevant. Contributions from a wide variety of sources is a big part of the power of Wikipedia and editors are doing everyone a disservice by lopping off information they personally deem to somehow be unworthy. Wikipikiliki 08:12, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm the one who removed that sentence (twice, I think), but I'm willing to admit now that I shouldn't have done so. My motivation at the time was that including that note suggests that the film is biased against McCarthy, and having recently seen it, I can't imagine it being more even-handed towards him. It shows him in a remarkably positive light, IMO. But, like the young 'uns say, "my bad." KarlBunker 11:33, 6 February 2006 (UTC)