Wikipedia Bias Influences How One’s Perception of Reality Is Perceived

New York Post ^ | Aug. 29, 2025 | Bethany Mandel

[Eagle Forgotten]

I didn’t know that there were plenty of lengthy “official” pages on the topic of correcting errors in your own page.

I’ll bet Mandel hasn’t done the research you did. Your information reinforces my conviction that she just wanted to complain about Wikipedia.

[dayglored]

> I didn’t know that there were plenty of lengthy “official” pages on the topic of correcting errors in your own page.

Well, Wikipedia's central theme of NPOV -- Neutral Point Of View -- is probably the most discussed, argued, and explicated concept on the site. It obviously applies to one's own bio page because it's impossible for a person to be so objective as to be "neutral" with regard to themself. But it applies to everything in the encyclopedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/FAQ

I can't and won't attempt to explain further, those links can get you started if you're interested.

> I’ll bet Mandel hasn’t done the research you did. Your information reinforces my conviction that she just wanted to complain about Wikipedia.

That's pretty much it. As a contributor from the early days, I have a viewpoint about the project and how it's evolved that's a combination of proud and disappointed. Proud that something I helped with got so big and valuable, and disappointed that it got twisted and to some degree corrupted by the leftists who took editorial control. Oh well, sic transit. It's still a very useful resource for most things; you just have to take the social/political with a grain of salt.

And of course most people who read it have no idea what it is or how to make it work better for them, but that's typical. Most people don't know how to change the oil in their car either. ;-)