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Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Gender bias (view source)
Revision as of 19:34, August 30, 2012
, 19:34, August 30, 2012→Biased content: Sue Gardner
==Biased content==
==Biased content==
# Wikipedia created a POV-pushing fork article attacking Republican Congressman [[Todd Akin]], called "Todd Akin rape and pregnancy controversy"<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Todd_Akin_%27legitimate_rape%27_and_pregnancy_comment_controversy&oldid=509892381</ref> which was nominated for deletion. Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, weighed in to advocate keeping the article when most editors thought it was sufficiently covered in Todd Akin's biography.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Todd_Akin_rape_and_pregnancy_controversy&diff=508894934&oldid=508887733</ref> This in turn, prompted a thread entitled "Is Sue Gardner an Idiot?" on wikipediareview.com.<ref>http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=39036</ref>
# Wikipedia awarded "good article" status<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles</ref> to a biased description of [[liberal]] Balboa High School, saying it has "a progressively nurturing environment" undergoing "a steady renaissance marked by academic innovation."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balboa_High_School_(San_Francisco)</ref> Nowhere in Wikipedia's 4,468-word description does it admit that half the 9th graders lacked proficiency on a statewide English test.<ref>Jill Tucker, "[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/16/MNGE2KJB5K1.DTL Student Successes Defy Urban Trends]" San Francisco Chronicle (Aug. 16, 2006).</ref> Instead, Wikipedia editors apparently like how this public school converted its metal shop into a sex-based "health" clinic.
# Wikipedia awarded "good article" status<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles</ref> to a biased description of [[liberal]] Balboa High School, saying it has "a progressively nurturing environment" undergoing "a steady renaissance marked by academic innovation."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balboa_High_School_(San_Francisco)</ref> Nowhere in Wikipedia's 4,468-word description does it admit that half the 9th graders lacked proficiency on a statewide English test.<ref>Jill Tucker, "[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/16/MNGE2KJB5K1.DTL Student Successes Defy Urban Trends]" San Francisco Chronicle (Aug. 16, 2006).</ref> Instead, Wikipedia editors apparently like how this public school converted its metal shop into a sex-based "health" clinic.
#Wikipedia is sexist? Definitions of [[antonym]]s don't match up:
#Wikipedia is sexist? Definitions of [[antonym]]s don't match up: