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Talk:Examples of Bias in Wikipedia (view source)
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:I think your description of the role played by "Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington," in the process by which the article on Conservapedia was deleted from Wikipedia, is factually inaccurate... or at least makes it easy for a reader to draw a factually inaccurate inference. I'll leave it up to you whether you feel like taking on the challenge of rewording it in a way that I will acknowledge is accurate, while still making the points you want to make. (E.g. it is accurate to say that Wikipedia gave admin privileges to an anonymous user with a silly screen name). [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 11:00, 30 January 2007 (EST)
:I think your description of the role played by "Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington," in the process by which the article on Conservapedia was deleted from Wikipedia, is factually inaccurate... or at least makes it easy for a reader to draw a factually inaccurate inference. I'll leave it up to you whether you feel like taking on the challenge of rewording it in a way that I will acknowledge is accurate, while still making the points you want to make. (E.g. it is accurate to say that Wikipedia gave admin privileges to an anonymous user with a silly screen name). [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 11:00, 30 January 2007 (EST)
==Wikipedia does/doesn't distort Benjamin Franklin's position on deism?==
The article gives as an example of bias,
:Wikipedia distorts the youthful acceptance of deism by Benjamin Franklin by never acknowledging that he later abandoned it.
However, Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#Virtue.2C_religion_and_personal_beliefs article on Franklin] says:
:A few years later, Franklin repudiated his 1725 pamphlet as an embarrassing "erratum"
It also cites a source to the effect that
:Franklin became uncomfortable with an unenhanced version of deism and comes up with his own conception of the Creator.
It cites other sources:
:According to David Morgan, Franklin was a proponent of all religions. He prayed to "Powerful Goodness" and referred to God as the "INFINITE." John Adams noted that Franklin was a mirror in which people saw their own religion: "The Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one of them. The Presbyterians thought him half a Presbyterian, and the Friends believed him a wet Quaker." Whatever else Benjamin Franklin was, concludes Morgan, "he was a true champion of generic religion."
Checking the history, there have been some back-and-forth in this section; a paragraph on how Franklin proposed "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God" as a motto for a Great Seal was removed, then restored, but the notes above seems to have been stable for a while. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 11:13, 30 January 2007 (EST)