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== Critical analysis ==
== Critical analysis ==
The English-language version of Metapedia currently has slightly more than 3400 articles. A random sample includes a rather superficial treatment of some subjects, and a more detailed treatment of others, but in some cases with highly dubious historical accuracy.
The English-language version of Metapedia currently has slightly more than 18000 articles. A random sample includes a rather superficial treatment of some subjects, and a more detailed treatment of others, but in some cases with highly dubious historical accuracy.
* Metapedia often protests vigorously against certain modern turns-of-phrase. They assert, for example, that the phrase "[[Native American]]" first applied to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants and ''not'' to [[American Indian]]s. While Conservapedia treats the phrase "Native American" as simply a phrase requiring disambiguation, Metapedia treats the phrase and its current usage as an example of deliberate linguistic revisionism. They trace the first usage of the phrase to 1845 and the Native American Party. Oddly enough, their source is not someone who would be sympathetic to their aims at all, but rather an author seeking to encourage her readers to treat ''all'' peoples with the respect due fellow [[human]] beings.<ref name=Bruchac>Bruchac, Marge. "[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~massasoit/bruchac.htm Thoughts on Indian Images, Names, and Respect]." Free page section, RootsWeb, December, 1999. Accessed September 6, 2008.</ref>
* Metapedia often protests vigorously against certain modern turns-of-phrase. They assert, for example, that the phrase "[[Native American]]" first applied to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants and ''not'' to [[American Indian]]s. While Conservapedia treats the phrase "Native American" as simply a phrase requiring disambiguation, Metapedia treats the phrase and its current usage as an example of deliberate linguistic revisionism. They trace the first usage of the phrase to 1845 and the Native American Party. Oddly enough, their source is not someone who would be sympathetic to their aims at all, but rather an author seeking to encourage her readers to treat ''all'' peoples with the respect due fellow [[human]] beings.<ref name=Bruchac>Bruchac, Marge. "[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~massasoit/bruchac.htm Thoughts on Indian Images, Names, and Respect]." Free page section, RootsWeb, December, 1999. Accessed September 6, 2008.</ref>