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Wikipedia is incredibly biased in terms of what news it cherry picks though. Just read through the debates of what gets proposed for inclusion, and then think a
by woweoe 4y ago
Wikipedia is incredibly biased in terms of what news it cherry picks though. Just read through the debates of what gets proposed for inclusion, and then think about the stuff that's outright deleted.
- lloydatkinson 4y agoDo you have some examples?
- woweoe 4y ago"Just read through the debates of what gets proposed for inclusion, and then think about the stuff that's outright deleted."
- marginalia_nu 4y agoI kinda also would like to see a concrete example.
- mcphage 4y agoThere was a great article posted here a few years back I’d love to find again, that discusses how to use Wikipedia to reinforce a position without lying. Splitting your side into a bunch of mutually reinforcing pages, careful choose of when to include or exclude adjectives, and so on. I found it pretty eye-opening.
- erdewit 4y agoFor example, the entire entry for "mass formation" was deleted. The Dutch version still exists: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massavorming https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massavorming