Thread:Talk:Article feedback/IMDB rating: Only consider trustworthy users/reply (22)

I agree that this is a big problem with the tool. An article I wrote had around 80 ratings, with all the parameters highly rated. One evening in London, an activist group held a meeting that was related to the topic of the article. One of them arrived on the talk page during the meeting to change one minor aspect of it, in accordance with the meeting's views. Several Wikipedians resisted the change. We watched as the ratings suddenly fell, as members of the activist group expressed their displeasure at not being allowed to make that one change. Now, a good and neutral article is rated as biased, with only moderately trustworthy sources, when in fact it's as neutral as we can make it, and uses the best sources available. This kind of activism seriously reduces the tool's value. SlimVirgin 21:16, 17 August 2011 (UTC)