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    Default Wikipedia founder says it is now extremely biased towards the left.

    Wiki used to be great but then libs took over and they always ruin everything with their policies of hate america, hate whites, and hate men.

    https://districtherald.com/wikipedia...-badly-biased/

    may 19 2020 Larry Sanger, the founder of Wikipedia says that the project has abandoned neutrality and is now “badly biased. Sanger is no longer involved with Wikipedia, and his co-founder, Jimmy Wales, is a far-left activist.

    In a blog post on Thursday, Sanger wrote a scathing critique of the bias at his former website.

    “Wikipedia’s ‘NPOV’ is dead,” Sanger began, referring to the site’s neutral point of view policy.

    He specifically pointed to the entries for former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump as examples.

    “The Barack Obama article completely fails to mention many well-known scandals: Benghazi, the IRS scandal, the AP phone records scandal, and Fast and Furious, to say nothing of Solyndra or the Hillary Clinton email server scandal—or, of course, the developing ‘Obamagate’ story in which Obama was personally involved in surveilling Donald Trump,” Sanger explained.
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    Anyone can edit the entries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Text Drivers are Killers View Post
    Wiki used to be great but then libs took over and they always ruin everything with their policies of hate america, hate whites, and hate men.
    Are you that stupid that you don't know what a peer-reviewed encyclopedia is at your age? Unless you're 15 or younger that's embarrassing. No, considering your writing you're just being a trolltard again. Simmer down, Mr. Sterotype Trolled Too Far.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Text Drivers are Killers View Post
    Wiki used to be great but then libs took over and they always ruin everything with their policies of hate america, hate whites, and hate men.
    Sanger is an establishment shill.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Anyone can edit the entries.
    Yes we know that but entries can be locked down as well. Much of the blame I fear goes to the editors who tend to be left leaning. He's absolutely right, it is very much a creature of the Left these days. How else do explain their tendency to disparage any climate scientist that doesn't spout the 'consensus' view?

    How can a serious encyclopedia use emotive language like climate denier to describe august scientific luminaries like Fred Singer who died recently. He was born a Jew in Austria and had to flee during the Anschluss to England to escape the Nazis, why he didn't sue the likes of Wiki and a host of climate alarmist blogs I don't know.

    Here is a very good example from the Wiki entry on him.

    Siegfried Fred Singer (September 27, 1924 – April 6, 2020)[1][2] was an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia.[3] Trained as an atmospheric physicist, Singer was known for climate change denial,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grajonca View Post
    Much of the blame I fear goes to the editors who tend to be left leaning.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grajonca View Post
    Yes we know that but entries can be locked down as well. Much of the blame I fear goes to the editors who tend to be left leaning. He's absolutely right, it is very much a creature of the Left these days. How else do explain their tendency to disparage any climate scientist that doesn't spout the 'consensus' view? How can a serious encyclopedia use emotive language like climate denier to describe august scientific luminaries like Fred Singer who died recently. Here is a very good example from Wiki.

    Siegfried Fred Singer (September 27, 1924 – April 6, 2020)[1][2] was an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia.[3] Trained as an atmospheric physicist, Singer was known for climate change denial,
    They can be locked down? Never heard of that. They constantly do "diff" on entries to see if there's any change. If it's bullshit or troll entry, they revert it to the previous version.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grajonca View Post
    Yes we know that but entries can be locked down as well. Much of the blame I fear goes to the editors who tend to be left leaning. He's absolutely right, it is very much a creature of the Left these days. How else do explain their tendency to disparage any climate scientist that doesn't spout the 'consensus' view? How can a serious encyclopedia use emotive language like climate denier to describe august scientific luminaries like Fred Singer who died recently. Here is a very good example from Wiki.

    Siegfried Fred Singer (September 27, 1924 – April 6, 2020)[1][2] was an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia.[3] Trained as an atmospheric physicist, Singer was known for climate change denial,
    They haven't quite gotten as bad as rationalwiki, but they're getting there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Woko Haram View Post
    They haven't quite gotten as bad as rationalwiki, but they're getting there.
    What about https://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page?


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    Democrat Party is the grammatically correct term for the Democratic Party. The Party is not "democratic," and proper nouns like "Democrat" are not converted into adjectives by adding "ic" as a suffix. For example, it is not the "Republicanic Party," or the "Libertarianic Party," or a "Smith-ic Wedding." yet many Democrats bristle at the term "Democrat Party." and perhaps they prefer the false illusion that their party is somehow more "democratic" than other parties. In fact, the Democrat Party is less democratic than the other political parties.

    In the 1800s, the Democrat Party was predominantly pro-slavery. Today, the Democrat Party is predominantly pro-abortion.


    See what I mean?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    They have the same level of bias as rationalwiki, but on the other side.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    They can be locked down? Never heard of that. They constantly do "diff" on entries to see if there's any change. If it's bullshit or troll entry, they revert it to the previous version.
    You have much to learn glasshopper, look for the padlock in the top RHS corner for entry on Nixon!

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon

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    Quote Originally Posted by Woko Haram View Post
    They have the same level of bias as rationalwiki, but on the other side.
    I never found rationalwiki to be biased to the left. Care to give me a few examples?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grajonca View Post
    You have much to learn glasshopper, look for the padlock in the top RHS corner for entry on Nixon!

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon
    I clicked on "edit" and it popped up with the text, "this page is protected to prevent vandalism".

    Hmmm. Pretty much... well kinda proves my point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    I never found rationalwiki to be biased to the left. Care to give me a few examples?
    Uh... are you serious?

    Where to start... I mean, hell, here you go: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Republican_Party

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