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# Journalist Violet Blue reported on a Wikipedia paid editing scandal for CNET.  In response, " Mr. Wales said on his Wikipedia “Talk” page that I’m not a journalist, or credible. Shortly afterward, everything on the Wikipedia page about me citing and documenting my career as a journalist was removed, as were related links on Wikipedia to stories I broke writing for CBS."<ref>http://violetblue.tumblr.com/journalism</ref>

# Journalist Violet Blue reported on a Wikipedia paid editing scandal for CNET.  In response, " Mr. Wales said on his Wikipedia “Talk” page that I’m not a journalist, or credible. Shortly afterward, everything on the Wikipedia page about me citing and documenting my career as a journalist was removed, as were related links on Wikipedia to stories I broke writing for CBS."<ref>http://violetblue.tumblr.com/journalism</ref>

# The Wikipedia page to do with [[David Seaman (American journalist)]] was locked and setup for deletion in December 2016 due to his investigation into [[PizzaGate]], as indicated on the Wikipedia talk page.<ref>[http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2016/12/youtube-censors-pizzagate-videos-trump-staff-fired-following-pizzagate-tweet/18427/ YouTube Censors PizzaGate Videos; Trump Staff Fired Following PizzaGate Tweet]</ref>Before his page was deleted, some editors such as User:Simtropolitan suggested using more reliable sources, writing, ''“if nothing else his very public firing from the Huffington Post at the height of the election warrants keeping this, but only as a stub if sources like ZeroHedge keep being cited. Reliable sources do exist, he has worked with networks that are not [fringe sources], don’t be a reactionary and cite blogs that have “Tyler Durden” as their author. Even if you want to make a villain out of him for Pizzagate, people much less relevant to current events like David Icke have long, well-cited articles here. I am not saying that Seaman is the same as Icke, but this is relevant to current events. The article can and should be improved upon however.”'' David Seaman's dismissal from [[Huffington Post]] was also covered by [[Real Clear Politics]], along with receiving coverage from [[The Daily Caller]]. However, even those weren’t considered reliable enough for the Wikipedia censors.<ref>[http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2016/12/wikipedia-deletes-david-seaman-entry-following-his-pizzagate-coverage/19050/ Wikipedia Deletes David Seaman Entry Following His PizzaGate Coverage]</ref>

# The Wikipedia page to do with [[David Seaman (American journalist)]] was locked and setup for deletion in December 2016 due to his investigation into [[PizzaGate]], as indicated on the Wikipedia talk page.<ref>[http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2016/12/youtube-censors-pizzagate-videos-trump-staff-fired-following-pizzagate-tweet/18427/ YouTube Censors PizzaGate Videos; Trump Staff Fired Following PizzaGate Tweet]</ref>Before his page was deleted, some editors such as User:Simtropolitan suggested using more reliable sources, writing, ''“if nothing else his very public firing from the Huffington Post at the height of the election warrants keeping this, but only as a stub if sources like ZeroHedge keep being cited. Reliable sources do exist, he has worked with networks that are not [fringe sources], don’t be a reactionary and cite blogs that have “Tyler Durden” as their author. Even if you want to make a villain out of him for Pizzagate, people much less relevant to current events like David Icke have long, well-cited articles here. I am not saying that Seaman is the same as Icke, but this is relevant to current events. The article can and should be improved upon however.”'' David Seaman's dismissal from [[Huffington Post]] was also covered by [[Real Clear Politics]], along with receiving coverage from [[The Daily Caller]]. However, even those weren’t considered reliable enough for the Wikipedia censors.<ref>[http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2016/12/wikipedia-deletes-david-seaman-entry-following-his-pizzagate-coverage/19050/ Wikipedia Deletes David Seaman Entry Following His PizzaGate Coverage]</ref>

# In the Snopes article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com), various attempts have been made to point out possible liberal bias in the Accuracy section of the article. User:Boab added a sentence to the Snopes article suggesting that the site has been accused of liberal bias in 2016. In support of this claim, User:Boab provided the following six references: <ref>http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/17/fact-checking-snopes-websites-political-fact-checker-is-just-a-failed-liberal-blogger/</ref><ref>https://ethicsalarms.com/2016/07/31/bye-bye-snopes-youre-dead-to-me-now/</ref><ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/262720/snopes-attack-front-page-shows-how-incompetent-it-daniel-greenfield</ref><ref>http://mynewsla.com/hollywood/2016/06/20/snopes-vs-daily-caller-fact-checker-hit-as-hillary-backer/</ref> <ref>https://jdlong.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/snopes-com-exposed-left-wing-website-not-quite-the-impartial-arbiter-of-truth/</ref><ref>http://www.angrypatriotmovement.com/who-is-behind-snopes/</ref><ref>[http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/snopes-got-snoped/60681 Snopes Got Snoped]</ref>

# Various attempts have been made by users to point out possible liberal bias in the Snopes article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com). User:Boab added a sentence to the Accuracy section of the article suggesting that the site has been accused of liberal bias. In support of this claim, User:Boab provided the following 2016 references: <ref>http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/17/fact-checking-snopes-websites-political-fact-checker-is-just-a-failed-liberal-blogger/</ref><ref>https://ethicsalarms.com/2016/07/31/bye-bye-snopes-youre-dead-to-me-now/</ref><ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/262720/snopes-attack-front-page-shows-how-incompetent-it-daniel-greenfield</ref><ref>http://mynewsla.com/hollywood/2016/06/20/snopes-vs-daily-caller-fact-checker-hit-as-hillary-backer/</ref> <ref>https://jdlong.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/snopes-com-exposed-left-wing-website-not-quite-the-impartial-arbiter-of-truth/</ref><ref>http://www.angrypatriotmovement.com/who-is-behind-snopes/</ref><ref>[http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/snopes-got-snoped/60681 Snopes Got Snoped]</ref>

::Despite the large number of references provided (some of which are from non-conservative sources), a cabal of administrators on the site insisted that none of them were valid and/or that they had to be deleted from the page. Although User:Boab also provided the list of references under the talk page of the site, the discussion (along with the references) was archived into obscurity due to complaints by active page users that the references were cluttering up the talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents.

::Despite the large number of references provided (some of which are from non-conservative sources), a cabal of administrators on the site insisted that none of them were valid and/or that they had to be deleted from the page. Although User:Boab also provided the list of references under the talk page of the site, this list of references was archived away into obscurity due to complaints by active page users that the references were cluttering up the talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents.

=== Liberal Politicians ===

=== Liberal Politicians ===