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Let's have a look at those articles you linked, that are supposed to demonstrate left-wing bias in Wikipedia. > https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-w
by mcv 1y ago
Let's have a look at those articles you linked, that are supposed to demonstrate left-wing bias in Wikipedia.
> https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/ https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/
This one is vague on specific instances of bias, but gets most concrete when it claims that Wikipedia treats treats 3 specific biased left-wing sources, Alternet, Counterpunch and Daily Kos, as more reliable than than the Daily Mail. But all three of those sites are red on Wikipedia's own Perennial Sources list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...
But, claims the article, these three sites are linked to a lot on Wikipedia, and then links to https://archive.is/PWPNB https://archive.is/PWPNB for evidence, but the vast majority of those links are from Talk pages and User pages, not articles.
So this is incredibly misleading.
> https://www.allsides.com/blog/wikipedia-biased https://www.allsides.com/blog/wikipedia-biased
This one is much better, and much more nuanced, but doesn't actually say that Wikipedia is biased in any way. It cites a lot of criticism, investigates it, but doesn't conclude there's actual bias.
The most concrete point of criticism seems to be that articles on socialism and communism don't list the atrocities of various communist regimes, but those atrocities receive plenty of attention on the pages of those regimes, and frequently have their own pages as well.
So no, I don't think you've made your case here.
> heavily biased propagandist sources like MSNBC, ABC, CNN, Al Jazeera, SPLC, ADL, the Atlantic
Those are incredibly mainstream sources. I'm sure they show some bias in some ways (I wouldn't trust Al Jazeera to be unbiased about Qatar, for example, but they're pretty good on other topics), but they're not exactly Fox News, which is an actual heavily biased propagandist source.
Your choice of words suggests you're the one that's biased.