Some interesting and concerning findings by these researchers. Especially the extent to which this type of intentional distortion remains on Wikipedia due to sh

Some interesting and concerning findings by these researchers. Especially the extent to which this type of intentional distortion remains on Wikipedia due to shortcomings in policy and oversight: > Even when administrators try to adjudicate on content-related infractions, they often misunderstand the subject matter or condemn the wrong editor. One dramatic instance of administrators completely missing the mark occurred in summer 2019. Icewhiz presented evidence of multiple falsifications to the Arbitration Committee, including Poeticbent's aforementioned insertion of the so-called welcome banner in Białystok, and the fallacies concerning Jewish militias at Stawiski and Radziłów. Icewhiz asked for sanctions against Volunteer Marek, who had both restored the Jewish militia story in the 'Radziłów' article, and defended content borrowed from Mark Paul in the 'History of the Jews in Poland' article. The Arbitration Committee gave this case little attention, tied up as they were with another case (called Fram) taking place at the same time. [...] Moreover, the arbitrators had no expertise in Polish history and little sense of who was in the right. [...] > The 2019 Arbitration Committee case ended dismally for defenders of historical accuracy. Instead of sanctioning Volunteer Marek for restoring unreliable sources and defending misrepresentations of sources, the administrators accused Icewhiz himself of distortion. Absurdly, they charged him with BLP violations for saying that Ewa Kurek had an 'outlandish interpretation' of the ghettos and that her work was 'questionable from historical and moral points of view,' blind to the fact that these were correct statements based on secondary sources. The arbitrators also claimed that Icewhiz had made an 'ethnically derogatory comment' simply by using the word 'Polocaust' to describe Piotrowski's argument, not realizing that Polish revisionists use this term to assert the equivalence between Polish and Jewish victimhood, and scholars use it to describe such revisionism. I wonder if this issue generalizes to other topics on Wikipedia, and if so, which ones are similarly adversely affected by arbitration, administrative and policy failures.