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Exactly. Wikipedia is mainly an ideological turf war, and the combatants are usually pretty toxic and seem to have pretty major personality problems (which are
by tivert 3y ago
Exactly. Wikipedia is mainly an ideological turf war, and the combatants are usually pretty toxic and seem to have pretty major personality problems (which are frequently overlooked and forgiven if they have a long tenure and/or align more or less with the Wikipedia zeitgeist.
Even seemingly uncontroversial history/culture articles can be affected [1], though those tend to be fixable after some time, because they get far less attention from the main combatants.
[1] e.g. some nationalist trying to push their agenda by claiming important cultural artifacts/practices of their neighbor actually come from the nationalist's country, using dubious sourcing and interpretation.