User:900674/EBW

From RationalWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

1. A Wikipedia editor going under the pseudonym Jagged85 made 67,000 edits between 2007 and 2010 until it was demonstrated that he was systematically misrepresenting Islamic science, technology, and philosophy.

This is a specific editor trying to bias articles in his favor. does not count


2.Wikipedia includes the margin of victory for a liberal politician, but omits or downplays the margin of defeat for the same politician. For example, Alan Mollohan lost in his own primary by 56-44% after voting for Obamacare, but Wikipedia's entry about him includes only his margins of victory in prior elections. The margin of defeat for liberal Gordon Brown is obscured in his Wikipedia entry also.

This is misleading or out of date. Alan Mollohan's results are under the section Elections subtitle 2010 Election: "Mollohan faced a Democratic primary challenge on May 11, 2010, and lost to State senator Mike Oliverio, 56% to 44%" and for gordon brown although it is true that the results are not on the page, he had more votes but less seats in that election.


3.Wikipedia uses trivia to push its liberal icons on readers. In its first 200 words about conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Wikipedia includes the meaningless trivia that he was born on the same day as (liberal) Jimmy Carter.[1] Yet nowhere in Carter's entry does it say he was born on the same day as Rehnquist.

this is out of date. there is no mention of carter on the page. Also carter was a president and rehnquest a judge which may explain why a previous editor though it was more important to mention it.


4.Wikipedia's article on the French Revolution censors the central role atheism played in causing the mass murders of the Reign of Terror.

it fails to explain how it has been downplayed. although there were athiests involved in anti-clericalism during the french revolution, it was an attempt by the government to punish anti-revolutionatry activity