Talk:Evergreen International Aviation

Should this article contain a link to the SourceWatch article?

User:R.Cooley - wiki has been repeatedly deleting a link in this article to SourceWatch's article on Evergreen International Aviation. Rather than getting into a pointless revert war with him, I thought the best thing would be to discuss it here, and request comments from prior contributors to the article (and anyone else who is interested). I'll summarize my arguments in favour of retaining the link below, and will invite him to add a summary of his arguments against. I should declare an interest here - I am the principal author of that article.--Neoconned 11:48, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

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• The SourceWatch article is very carefully sourced from archived newspaper articles dating back to the 1980s and 1990s. I accessed these through the LexisNexis service. Readers who wish to read the articles for themselves will need to pay $3.00 per article. However, they are also available through the NewsBank service. Thanks to NewsBank, I have been able to provide links in the article which return the first paragraph of most of the referenced newspaper articles. So readers can at least verify the existence of the referenced articles for free.
• A lot of the information in the SourceWatch article simply isn't available anywhere else on the web. The article makes a lot of historical information about the company easily accessible for the first time in years (I suspect this is R. Cooley's real objection to it).
• SourceWatch does not claim to adhere to an NPOV policy like Wikipedia. Its stated editorial policy is "fairness and accuracy" [1]. I'll leave it to others to judge whether the article achieves this aim or not!--Neoconned 11:48, 5 November 2006 (UTC)