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The policy(ies) often if not always (non-systemically/systemically) perpetuate(s) western 'SYSTEMICBIAS' since most wiki editors and readers are from the US/western world and so the policy shall "obviously" mean common AMERICAN / common LATIN/WESTERN name(s)

A proposal i have in mind 👇

Let's make RS guidelines country-specific (or even better, LANGUAGE-specific) (A gentle reminder, this is not simply enwiki, this is the wikipedia of a language now used as a lingua franca among almost all other language groups) 2402:E280:3D1D:5B0:8992:B002:E06E:55C5 (talk) 21:32, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(One rather trivial reason can be - how wikipedians use almost exclusively US / Western - origin sources (like MSNBC, NYT, BBC, CNN in the news cat. foreg.) as examples, when trying to make a point about reliability in articles, thereby lending the whole RS thing (as well as 'reliability' on Wikipedia) a highly western - elitist "tone/air" ) (especially or atleast among non-western/english newbies)

As I implied above, there can be/are several far less trivial reasons than this one started above (but for Wikipedia itself, the above reason I think could have enough weight of it's own) 2402:E280:3D1D:5B0:8992:B002:E06E:55C5 (talk) 21:37, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For the interested, treating the #History of the practice of bride buying—nearly universal in various forms across human cultures since at least the neolithic—with a single long paragraph on Jamestown has to be some kind of apotheosis of WP:BIAS. Handy anecdote for those trying to explain the concept to others, when needed.

Here's a link to the current state of the article since I'll at least add Herodotus talking about it with the Babylonians and Illyrians. (Of course the ideal fix is to expand coverage and not just nix the navel-gazing bit in the name of WP:UNDUE.) — LlywelynII 21:15, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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