Examples of Bias in Wikipedia

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Below is a growing list of examples of liberal bias, deceit, frivolous gossip, and blatant errors on Wikipedia. The atheist Jimmy Wales was a lead founder of Wikipedia. Christian apologist JP Holding called Wikipedia "the abomination that causes misinformation".[1]

Examples of Bias

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  1. The Carrie Prejean article on Wikipedia is carefully crafted however, major points tend to end with a liberals last word. 'Photograph controversy' last line quotes "go beyond what the Miss California pageant says are appropriate, and do not benefit Prejean's status." The section 'Crown retention', last line says- "she no longer believes in the organization," referring to a pageant official. The page is locked from mentioning other contestants who also had photos questionable under pageant rules. The last line of 'Miss USA 2009 controversy', plug the candidate for governor of Ca. and same-sex advocate SF mayor Gavin Newsom beliefs, supports Prejean. Wikipedia's non family-friendly presentation is complete with text of Hilton's foul-mouthed tirade.[2]
  2. Wikipedia's purity ring page is hopelessly biased against the concept. 573 characters describing the purity ring. Criticisms of purity rings- 1475 characters with three references. How does Wikipedia educate their readers when they only discredit purity rings? [3]
  3. The scope and depth of racism prevalent on Wikipedia is despicable. Over a thousand pages that include the ethnic slur 'Nigger', many in the page title. [1]
  4. Wikipedia deleted 9/12 Candidate page (twice) due to lack of notability[4]. Creator blocked because his real name does not meet username policy[5] and editor (me) blocked[6] for spam/advertising and "conflict of interest, which is introducing a severe bias to your edits".
  5. VoteVets.org is a partisan political organization that seeks to elect Democrats and to replace Republicans in Congress. Wikipedia's erroneous entry labels the liberal group a "non-partisan" political action committee. [7]
  6. Just like the liberal-aligned MSM, Wikipedia is consistent when hiding unflattering information about their fellow liberals. Wikipedia purposely buried an important statement from Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the now-infamous "Wise Latina" remark. One has to scroll through 49,600 characters of a 54,000 character page to find the statement. Also, Wikipedia does not mention her membership in La Raza, a group that has promoted the distribution of driver's licenses to illegal aliens, amnesty programs for illegal aliens, and the non-enforcement of immigration laws [8]
  7. Wikipedia feels that the Barack Obama article should omit any mention of William Ayers and the Weather Underground. Wikipedia's mobocracy has decided that you, the public, have no need to learn about Obama's past relationships that made national headlines. No mention of Obama's ties to ACORN either. [9]
  8. Wikipedia's Template:Infobox and elsewhere still maintains the fiction that Barack Hussein Obama was a "Professor of Constitutional Law," whereas White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has flatly denied Obama ever taught constitutional law. [2]
  9. In Wikipedia's page on the ABC's docudrama The Path to 9/11, the page contains a section titles "Controversy and criticisms," which contains 19 sub-sections to support it, while the section titled "Controversy: support for The Path to 9/11" only contains four, despite the fact that the controversy was sparked by pro-Clinton liberals that failed to see the fact that the two-part miniseries criticized both Bush and Clinton administrations leading up to 9/11 and that writer Cyrus Nowrasteh stated that many of their consultants on it stated that the docudrama went easy on Clinton. It also fails to note John Ziegler's documentary on the censoring of the docudrama Blocking the Path to 9/11 [3], which contains interviews with many people on the topic, and points out how the MSM liberals and Clintons have smeared it so much that it has destroyed it from ever being shown on TV or being sold on DVD in the near-future. [4]
  10. Wikipedia provides a large page of information regarding the Winter Soldiers story however they never mention that the people involved fabricated events, were caught lying, were doing it to push a liberal anti-war message. A section lists the fact that Congress investigated the matter. However it does not list the outcome- falsehoods, fabrications and outright lies to weaken the U.S. military as it was engaged with fighting the Communist North Vietnam. [5] [6]
  11. One of Wikipedia's barnstars—given nominally for World War II writing contributions—is in fact an American flag desecrated with Nazi and Soviet Union graffiti.
  12. Wikipedia's Nidal Malik Hasan article fails to mention any connection to Obama's transition government. Hasan's associations are clearly exposed but Wikipedia can't label Hasan a terrorist. He is just a shooter, not a massacre. [7]
  13. In relation to the Wikipedia article on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Wikipedia mentions terrorism, Al Qaeda, Islamic countries, imams and Taliban but nowhere will you find the word "Muslim terrorist" nor "Islamic terrorist". [8] That is a key point that liberals want to hide from the public. [9] The very same can be said for Wikipedia's wikinews item Failed bomb aboard Delta flight article. [10]
  14. Wikipedia's Communism article omits to mention that millions of people have perished as a result of the Marxist ideology. Near the very end of the article they mention "alleged by some scholars to be responsible for famines, purges and warfare resulting in deaths." The article states "classes are abolished" "oppression-free society" and policies made "democratically" without mentioning those positions are really just propaganda. [11]
  15. Wikipedia's article on Martin Luther King Jr. is extensive. There is little doubt that King was known for civil rights. However, Wikipedia fails to recognize King's main 'Influence', Jesus Christ. King's life was Jesus from day one, his entire life was Christ inspired. As Dr. King Jr said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." [12]
  16. Wikipedia will zealously guard what is said about liberal politicians. But any smear or false accusation of conservative politicians is immediately promoted on their pages as guilty. As is the case with John Edwards. His scandal was known for over a year, since 2007, before the mainstream media decided to cover it. Wikipedia claims in their article "Mainstream media in the United States have chosen not to report this incident, or the allegations that led to it, which Edwards has previously denied." Yet, they did not mention that repeated attempts to add that information was removed by Wikipedia prior to July 28, 2008. [13] In addition, many criticisms of Edwards have not made it into Wikipedia such as he used well-wishes to Elizabeth regarding her re-occurrence of cancer to solicit email donations to his Presidential campaign.
  17. Although against their own policy Wikipedia allows Liberals such as voiceover actor D. C. Douglas, who under the name of Lance Baxter, called Freedonworks and referred to their workers and supporters as "mentally retarded," and asked what happens after one of their "members does actually kill somebody." A sys-op "protected" the page deleting any mention of Douglas' controversial actions and statements. [10]
  18. Wikipedia has an unexplainable love for supporting Irish liberals and almost completely ignoring Northern Irish conservatives by calling Londonderry by it's unofficial slang name "derry"[11] and by marginalizing the use of the Flag of Northern Ireland by claiming it's "unofficial" and often calling it derogatory names such as "sectarian rag" which go unpunished[12]. Unlike Conservapedia which always use the correct names for things and does not tolorate any derogetary liberal hatred or cave into peer pressure.
  19. The liberal mobocracy fails to understand what the Tea Party Movement is all about. Wikipedia attempts to smear the Tea Party Nation by claiming the organization "actively censors political speech", without providing any references to backup the claim. [14]
  20. Wikipedia reveals in its article "CIA activities in Iran" that "Khomeini's coup was engineered by Britain to get a better oil contract renewal and by the senior ranks of the U.S. liberal establishment....these two resourceful parties were able to direct the CIA in this task while keeping President Carter largely ignorant of the policy and its ultimate objectives."[13] Although largely harmless in its embrace of similar pseudoscience and hysteria (Saddam, Khomeini, and Osama have all "allegedly" been CIA agents since their early twenties, according to Wikipedia's fringe articles--the really obscure ones apparently evade the notice of 90% of its editors); it is worth noting that in this particular instance, repeated attempts to remove the offending content have been made and rejected, on the grounds that the assertions are "well-sourced info."[14] Beware, ladies and gentlemen, of what you may uncover when plumbing the seemingly endless depths of Wikipedia's inanity.
  21. Wikipedia also claims that the war cost 1.5 to 2 million Cambodian and Laotian lives; in reality, Wikipedia later admits to a mere 600,000 dead in Cambodia, and 30-50,000 in Laos.[15] The 600,000 figure may have been invented by Pol Pot himself and is 2 to 3 times the real number of war-related deaths.[16][17][18] NOTE: Wikipedia may have moderated its fabricated statistics at the present time.
  22. It adds, on Cambodia, that "after five years of savage fighting that brought about massive casualties, the destruction of the economy, the starvation of the population, and grievous atrocities, the Republican government was defeated on 17 April 1975 when the victorious Khmer Rouge proclaimed the establishment of Democratic Kampuchea."[19] As noted, their casualty figures are extreme fabrications based on Khmer Rouge propaganda; Cambodia, far from facing starvation, exported food every year prior to the Communist take-over and had plenty left to spare besides.
  23. The same article adds: "thus, it has been argued, that the US intervention in Cambodia contributed to the eventual seizure of power by the Khmer Rouge." Declassified documents from the Soviet archives reveal that the North Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1970 was launched at the explicit request of the Khmer Rouge and negotiated by Pol Pot's second-in-command, Nuon Chea.[20] The Communists had the American equivalent of 4 million armed and organized troops overrun two-thirds of the country prior to any American bombing. Vietnam later admitted that it "played a decisive role" in bringing to power the Pathet Lao in Laos and Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.[21]
  24. Wikipedia's "Fall of Saigon" article states that "according to the Hanoi government, more than 200,000 South Vietnamese government officials, military officers, and soldiers were sent to reeducation camps."[22] According to independent sources, the actual number was well in excess of one million.[23]
  25. Wikipedia lies by omission: "In the North, thousands of landowners were murdered by the communists and famine broke out in the 1950s. In the South, Diem went about crushing all opposition and tens of thousands were jailed or killed; dissidents were routinely labelled as communists even if they were anti-communist." In fact, there were only 30,000 prisoners of all kinds in South Vietnam;[24] several hundred thousand were killed in North Vietnam in the fifties.[25]
  26. Wikipedia's "Communism in Vietnam" contains the following sentence: "Unlike the Khmer Rouge, the Vietnamese Communists did not commit a "blood bath" [after 1975]."[26] In fact, they killed 400,000 to 2.5 million South Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians after the fall of Saigon.[27]
  27. Wikipedia also makes the following claim: "in January 1980 the US started funding Pol Pot while he was in exile."[28] The source is John Pilger, who had to pay "very serious" libel damages for promulgating the fantasy;[29] the US-backed rebels of Son Sann engaged in extensive fighting with the Khmer Rouge.[30]
  28. Wikipedia refers to the "freely elected" Arbenz regime in Guatemala being unjustly overthrown by the CIA;[31] Guatemala's official 1999 truth commission confirms that Arbenz actually murdered hundreds of his opponents.[32]
  29. Wikipedia notes that: "the Contras form of warfare was "one of consistent and bloody abuse of human rights, of murder, torture, mutilation, rape, arson, destruction and kidnapping.""[33] However, attempts to mention Sandinista human rights violations were dismissed as "irrelevant allegations,"[34] even though they killed exponentially more people.[35]
  30. Wikipedia refers to an apparently fabricated interview claiming that the US armed the Afghan rebels prior to the Soviet invasion as a reliable source;[36] in fact, there is no reference to it in the American edition of the magazine in which it allegedly appeared and the only source available for it online is an obscure left-wing blog;[37] declassified government documents reveal that the aid was purely humanitarian in nature and that it specifically excluded weaponry;[38] and Carter officials reacted with shock to the accusation.[39]
  31. Although the Free Republic is (correctly) not allowed as a source on Wikipedia; the Srbrenica massacre denying[40] hate site ZNet is regularly used as a source--as is the neo-Nazi blog[41] CounterPunch.
  32. On July 28, 2010, the United States was listed as a "belligerent" fighting on the side of Iraq in Wikipedia's "Iran-Iraq War" article.[42] On July 15, 2010, Ronald Reagan was listed under "commanders and leaders" as a commander of Iraqi forces, alongside Saddam Hussein and his thugs.[43]
  33. Wikipedia's George W. Bush article says: "Those invasions led to the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the removal of Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq as well as the deaths of many Iraqis, with surveys indicating between four hundred thousand to over one million dead, excluding the tens of thousands of civilians in Afghanistan."[44] In reality, based on the findings of Iraqi hospitals and morgues, the Iraqi government estimates that 150,000 Iraqis died in the war, with only 1-2% of those deaths being at the hands of US troops, and the rest by the insurgency they were combating.[45] The American army in Iraq has taken three times as many casualties as it has inflicted on Iraqi civilians in collateral damage.[46] Although Wikipedia may insist that these numbers are there only to help unbiased viewers consider the Bush legacy, there is no mention of the fact that the US invasion of Afghanistan saved millions of Afghans from starvation,[47][48] or that the lives of 112,000 Afghan children and 7,500 pregnant Afghan women have been saved every year since due to improved healthcare resulting from the invasion (by UNICEF figures).[49]
  34. A Wikipedia administrator that obsessively edits all article pertaining to the Indochina wars--"YellowMonkey"--is a Vietnamese admirer of Ho Chi Minh who emblazons his user page with a hammer and sickle as well as Communist slogans in Vietnamese.[50] He sends warnings such as "Kissinger supporter on the loose" to other editors whenever accurately sourced data is inserted into an article.[51]
  35. "Radical Right Wing" derogatory labels

Take a look at the WP article for the John Birch Society and associated discussion page on Wikipedia, regarding the labeling of the JBS as being "radical right-wing". Any attempts to remove "radical" are quickly reverted by the liberal gatekeepers, and the editor warned or banned. Now take a look at the article for Code Pink. (considered by many as "radical left wing"). Any attempts there to label them as a "radical" group are quickly removed, and the editors again banned or chastised by liberal watchdogs.

So the label "radical" is perfectly acceptable to describe a tame right-wing outfit, but is unacceptable to describe a left-wing group that has used radical tactics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Pink

The issue seems to be because there is an descriptive article where liberal gatekeepers are responsible for "defining" what "radical right-wing" means, but not a matching one that has been successfully created for "radical left-wing", where Code Pink would likely fall. There is only a more tame "far-left" to use, which stops short of radical left-wing tactics--CenterRight 19:33, 31 December 2010 (EST)

Abortion

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Abortion

Anti-Christianity

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Anti-Christianity

Conservapedia smears

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Conservapedia smears

Conservative personalities and politicians

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Conservative Personalities

Global warming

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Global warming

Homosexuality

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Homosexuality

Liberal Politicians

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Liberal Politicians

Obama

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Obama

Science and Evolution

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Science and Evolution

Humorous quotes relating to bias and Wikipedia

See also: 10 telltale signs you are on your way to becoming an atheist nerd - satire

An article entitled Wikipedia Gridlocked by Wikipedia Nerds declared:

“ So who are these Gatekeepers to all the internet's knowledge?

A survey the foundation conducted last year determined that the average age of an editor is 26.8 years, and that 87% of them are men.

As you suspected: nerds.[52]

”

Song excerpt

“ All of my action figures are Cherry,

Stephen Hawking's in my library....

I edit Wikipedia...I'm nerdy in the extreme, whiter than sour cream...

They see me strollin', they're laughin' And rollin' their eyes cause I'm so White and nerdy". - White and Nerdy, Weird Al Yankovic[53]

”

See also

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References

  1. ↑ http://tektonticker.blogspot.com/search/label/Wikipedia
  2. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carrie_Prejean&diff= Wikipedia- Carrie Prejean
  3. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Purity_ring&diff= Wikipedia- Purity ring
  4. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/9/12_Candidate
  5. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jacob_F._Roecker
  6. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:WashingtonIsBroke#User:WashingtonIsBroke
  7. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=VoteVets.org&diff=293037611&oldid=293035975 VoteVets.org
  8. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sonia_Sotomayor&diff=302177838&oldid=302177614
  9. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barack_Obama&diff=302499449&oldid=302497807
  10. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=D._C._Douglas&action=history
  11. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londonderry
  12. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:The_C_of_E&diff=354377823&oldid=352220232
  13. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iran
  14. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIA_activities_in_Iran
  15. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_civil_war
  16. ↑ Marek Sliwinski, Le Génocide Khmer Rouge: Une Analyse Démographique (L’Harmattan, 1995).
  17. ↑ Heuveline, Patrick (2001). "The Demographic Analysis of Mortality in Cambodia." In Forced Migration and Mortality, eds. Holly E. Reed and Charles B. Keely. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
  18. ↑ Banister, Judith, and Paige Johnson (1993). "After the Nightmare: The Population of Cambodia." In Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the United Nations and the International Community, ed. Ben Kiernan. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies.
  19. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_civil_war
  20. ↑ Dmitry Mosyakov, “The Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese Communists: A History of Their Relations as Told in the Soviet Archives,” in Susan E. Cook, ed., Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda (Yale Genocide Studies Program Monograph Series No. 1, 2004), p54ff. Availible online at: http://128.36.236.77/workpaper/pdfs/GS20.pdf "In April-May 1970, many North Vietnamese forces entered Cambodia in response to the call for help addressed to Vietnam not by Pol Pot, but by his deputy Nuon Chea. Nguyen Co Thach recalls: “Nuon Chea has asked for help and we have liberated five provinces of Cambodia in ten days.”"
  21. ↑ The Economist, February 26, 1983; Washington Post, April 23, 1985.
  22. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_saigon#Aftermath
  23. ↑ Orange County Register (29 April 2001)
  24. ↑ Guenter Lewy, America in Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 1978), pp294-5.
  25. ↑ Robert F. Turner, Vietnamese Communism: Its Origins and Development (Hoover Institution Press, 1975);Gerard Tongas, L'enfer communiste au Nord Viêt-Nam (Nouvelles Editions Debresse, 1960).
  26. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_in_Vietnam
  27. ↑ Rummel, Rudolph, Statistics of Vietnamese Democide, in his Statistics of Democide.
  28. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brzezinski,_Zbigniew#Cambodia
  29. ↑ The Guardian, UK, July 6, 1991.
  30. ↑ The Far Eastern Economic Review, December 22, 1988.
  31. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala#1944_to_present_day
  32. ↑ “Antecedentes Inmediatos (1944-1961): El derrocamiento de Arbenz y la intervención militar de 1954,” in Comisión para el Esclaracimiento Histórico (CEH), Guatemala: Memoria Del Silencio (Guatemala, 1999), Capítulo primero.
  33. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions#Nicaragua_1981-1990
  34. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions&offset=20100903012333&action=history
  35. ↑ Roger Miranda and William Ratliff, The Civil War in Nicaragua (Transaction Publishers, 1993), pp253-4; West, W. Gordon. "The Sandinista Record on Human Rights in Nicaragua (1979-1990)" http://www.reds.msh-paris.fr/publications/revue/pdf/ds22/ds022-03.pdf (PDF). Réseau Européen Droit et Société. Retrieved 2009-03-30.
  36. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions&offset=20100903012333&action=history
  37. ↑ The interview has been republished by Alexander Cockburn's neo-Nazi CounterPunch website, but was first posted online here: http://www.proxsa.org/resources/9-11/Brzezinski-980115-interview.htm
  38. ↑ They can be seen here: http://www.activistmagazine.com/images/stories/government/carter_79-1581.jpg and http://www.activistmagazine.com/images/stories/government/carter_79-1579.jpg
  39. ↑ The Nation, November 12, 2001.
  40. ↑ Kamm, Oliver, Chomsky's Outlet's
  41. ↑ Harry's Place, "CounterPunch," http://hurryupharry.org/2005/02/27/counterpunch/
  42. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War&diff=375898707&oldid=375895692
  43. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War&diff=368133799&oldid=368122576
  44. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Foreign_policy
  45. ↑ http://www.aina.org/news/2007110894701.jsp
  46. ↑ http://www.aina.org/news/2007110894701.jsp
  47. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42858-2001Dec30?language=printer
  48. ↑ http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24019
  49. ↑ New York Times, February 1, 2002.
  50. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:YellowMonkey
  51. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fifelfoo#Kissinger_supporter_on_the_loose
  52. ↑ http://gawker.com/5410917/wikipedia-gridlocked-by-wikipedia-nerds
  53. ↑ http://www.musiclyricsfyi.com/white-nerdy-lyrics.htm

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