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Is bias a reason to delete?
This appears to be a frequent misconception on Wikipedia, so I wanted to say something about this here.
From Wikipedia:NPOV#Lack_of_neutrality_as_an_excuse_to_delete :
The neutrality policy is used sometimes as an excuse to delete texts that are perceived as biased. Isn't this a problem?
In many cases, yes. Many of us believe that the fact that some text is biased is not enough, in itself, to delete it outright. If it contains valid information, the text should simply be edited accordingly.
There's sometimes trouble determining whether some claim is true or useful, particularly when there are few people on board who know about the topic. In such a case, it's a good idea to raise objections on a talk page; if one has some reason to believe that the author of the biased material will not be induced to change it, we have sometimes taken to removing the text to the talk page itself (but not deleting it entirely). But the latter should be done more or less as a last resort, never as a way of punishing people who have written something biased.
From Wikipedia:Avoiding_common_mistakes: "Deleting biased content. Biased content can be useful content (see above). Remove the bias and keep the content."
