Posted on 05/20/2020 5:16:11 PM PDT by DeweyCA
I was reading the entry for Mussolini today.
It said he/fascism was far-right but it was
locked down.
If we could only do the same with Google, Facebook, Twitter
And he just now noticed?
I stopped donating about 3+ years ago.
Gee, what happened to most so called free sites, 3 years ago?
The Barack Obama article completely fails to mention many well-known scandals: Benghazi, the IRS scandal, the AP phone records scandal, and Fast and Furious, to say nothing of Solyndra or the Hillary Clinton email server scandalor, of course, the developing Obamagate story in which Obama was personally involved in surveilling Donald Trump, Sanger explained. A fair article about a major political figure certainly must include the bad with the good. The only scandals that I could find that were mentioned were a few that the left finds at least a little scandalous, such as Snowdens revelations about NSA activities under Obama. In short, the article is almost a total whitewash.
The founder points out that the entry for President Trump, on the other hand, is unrelentingly negative.
Meanwhile, as you can imagine, the idea that the Donald Trump article is neutral is a joke. Just for example, there are 5,224 none-too-flattering words in the Presidency section. By contrast, the following Public Profile (which the Obama article entirely lacks), Investigations, and Impeachment sections are unrelentingly negative, and together add up to some 4,545 wordsin other words, the controversy sections are almost as long as the sections about his presidency, Sanger explains. Common words in the article are false and falsely (46 instances): Wikipedia frequently asserts, in its own voice, that many of Trumps statements are false. Well, perhaps they are. But even if they are, it is not exactly neutral for an encyclopedia article to say so, especially without attribution. You might approve of Wikipedia describing Trumps incorrect statements as false, very well; but then you must admit that you no longer support a policy of neutrality on Wikipedia.
Liberals crap on everything and destroy them. Wiki’s no exception. Literally all of their political entries are horseshit.
I’ve supported Wikipedia in the past. I’ll send my support elsewhere going forward.
True that. You ought to see what they say about FR. Not too kind. Not exactly rabid, it’s not that but it’s back handed enough to notice.
My thoughts exactly. 8>)
I went to the Wikipedia entry for Hillary Clinton right before the 2016 election to check on some detail. Now, Im not making this up. About half-way down the Wikipedia page, the entry said: Hillarys hobby is looking at female behinds. If you have a good picture of a female behind, please send it to her.
I couldnt believe my eyes! Some prankster had modified Hillarys entry, and Wikipedia had not caught it.
Now heres the sad part. The next day I went back to take a screenshot of that entry, and the modification was gone. Drat!
I have no need of the Wiki definition on FR; having been here almost 20 years Im well versed in their policies/political leanings.
Yep, that is so true
In liberals’ case, their Midas Touch is 100% manure
It took years for Wikipedia to earn at least a little bit of credibility.
And just like everything else they touch, SJWs will tank that hard.
High school and college students are brainwashed by their teachers. They are liberally biased. And, I suppose putting all Communist teachers against the wall for treason is a no-go...
No thanks!
That sounds like Reddit with its up votes and down votes.
Try an experiment.
Go to the Reddit subforum r/politics.
Say something good--that is demonstrably true--about Donald Trump. You'll have negative votes.
Now say something bad--that is just totally false--and you'll have hundreds of up votes.
The Encyclosphere would devolve the same way.
Bookmark.
I find myself regularly comparing the article on Rationalwiki to the Wikipedia variant. Rationalwiki is far superior.
There is no reason to use Wikipedia as there are plenty of alternatives.... here’s one. https://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page
Scopes looked into the claim that Wiki is biased, and found it false.
And Wiki’s self-examination says that Wiki leans right.
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