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Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Gender bias (view source)
Revision as of 19:21, December 22, 2015
, 19:21, December 22, 2015Added example of Gender Bias by Wikipedia resulting in historically inaccurate information being recorded for a global historical figure
#A Women's Studies class at Mount Royal University tried to create a Wikipedia article about a feminist blogger, but was met with resistance.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/1247529/mount-royal-university-womens-studies-class-aims-to-take-back-piece-of-wikipedia/|title=Mount Royal University women’s studies class aims to take back piece of Wikipedia|first= Jeremy |last=Nolais|date=December 23, 2014|accessdate=December 25, 2014|work=Calgary Metro News}}</ref>
#A Women's Studies class at Mount Royal University tried to create a Wikipedia article about a feminist blogger, but was met with resistance.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/1247529/mount-royal-university-womens-studies-class-aims-to-take-back-piece-of-wikipedia/|title=Mount Royal University women’s studies class aims to take back piece of Wikipedia|first= Jeremy |last=Nolais|date=December 23, 2014|accessdate=December 25, 2014|work=Calgary Metro News}}</ref>
#Wikipedia's article "Gamergate controversy" is a prolonged edit war between feminists and computer game fans, which became the subject of a Wikipedia Arbitration Committee case. The Committee banned long-time editor Ryulong.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate|title=GamerGate|accessdate=February 8, 2015}}</ref>
#Wikipedia's article "Gamergate controversy" is a prolonged edit war between feminists and computer game fans, which became the subject of a Wikipedia Arbitration Committee case. The Committee banned long-time editor Ryulong.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate|title=GamerGate|accessdate=February 8, 2015}}</ref>
# Wikipedia's editors repeatedly vandalised the [[Charles Bradlaugh]] entry to read he was a supporter of [[women's suffrage]] when Bradlaugh was instead a supporter of [[universal suffrage]]. The [https://charlesbradlaughsociety.wordpress.com/ Charles Bradlaugh Society] (est 2002) were banned by Wikipedia for re-editing this to be historically accurate, quoting directly from Bradlaugh's work [https://archive.org/stream/realrepresentati29brad#page/n0/mode/2up The Real Representation of the People]. This quote was deleted by editors as it highlighted Bradlaugh's support for [[universal suffrage]]. The last accurate version of Wikipedia entry can be [https://charlesbradlaughsociety.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/last-accurate-charles-bradlaugh-wikipedia-entry-21-december-2015.pdf found here].
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