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==Biased content==

==Biased content==

# Wikipedia user MZMcBride ran a search to analyse all the biographies of living people that [[Jimmy Wales]] has edited. Wales has made 469 edits to biographies of living persons. Nearly 33% of those were applied to female biography subjects. Because only 19% of Wikipedia’s biographies are about women, Jimmy Wales is 72% more likely than “random” to address the biographies of women than those of men.  His edits focus upon younger women.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.examiner.com/article/jimmy-wales-shows-favoritism-on-wikipedia|title=Jimmy Wales shows favoritism on Wikipedia|work=examiner.com|first=Greg|last=Kohs|date=March 4, 2011|accessdate=March 15, 2014}}</ref>

# Wikipedia user MZMcBride ran a search to analyse all the biographies of living people that [[Jimmy Wales]] has edited. Wales has made 469 edits to biographies of living persons. Nearly 33% of those were applied to female biography subjects. Because only 19% of Wikipedia's biographies are about women, Jimmy Wales is 72% more likely than “random” to address the biographies of women than those of men.  His edits focus upon younger women.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.examiner.com/article/jimmy-wales-shows-favoritism-on-wikipedia|title=Jimmy Wales shows favoritism on Wikipedia|work=examiner.com|first=Greg|last=Kohs|date=March 4, 2011|accessdate=March 15, 2014}}</ref>

# Wikipedia created a POV-pushing fork article attacking Republican Congressman [[Todd Akin]], called "Todd Akin rape and pregnancy controversy"<ref>https://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>https://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> After 130,738 bytes of debate, the deletion proposal was rejected as "no consensus," allowing the attack article to be kept.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Todd_Akin_rape_and_pregnancy_controversy&oldid=509649032</ref>

# Wikipedia created a POV-pushing fork article attacking Republican Congressman [[Todd Akin]], called "Todd Akin rape and pregnancy controversy"<ref>https://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>https://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> After 130,738 bytes of debate, the deletion proposal was rejected as "no consensus," allowing the attack article to be kept.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Todd_Akin_rape_and_pregnancy_controversy&oldid=509649032</ref>

#  Wikipedia awarded "good article" status<ref>https://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>https://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, "[https://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>https://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>https://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, "[https://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.