Oh wow. Politics is not a science. You're treating these books as if they are scientific research, which is indeed "vetted by the scholarly community" and must pass "peer-review". These books are nothing like that. They are not "vetted by the scholarly community" as they are political POV, not scie...

I guess it all depends on whether these are decent scholarly sources. In real life, yes, but Wikipedia makes it pretty clear: ""Reliable scholarship – Material such as an article, book, monograph, or research paper that has been vetted by the scholarly community is regarded as reliable, where the m...

The article "Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections" is a very peculiar article. It has over 500 citations, but, as far as I can tell, only ONE scholarly citation. The one scholarly citation sharply criticizes the narrative that has been promulgated by the popular media & by the US...

Whoever "Ad Orientem" is, I like them. He made the first comment in favor of deleting the essay, and said "It smacks of an attempt to turn Wikipedia into an ideological echo chamber. We need to draw a line somewhere and this seems like a good place to start." Amen. There was one comment in the AfD ...

Whoever "Ad Orientem" is, I like them. He made the first comment in favor of deleting the essay, and said

"It smacks of an attempt to turn Wikipedia into an ideological echo chamber. We need to draw a line somewhere and this seems like a good place to start."

Amen.

Good post man. You've identified one of the core problems with Wikipedia. One of the main contributors to political bias on Wikipedia is the fact that there is almost no ideological diversity among Wikipedia editors. That is particularly evident in topics related to sexuality and gender. I think the...

one could write a whole book about Bishonen's stupidity. Unfortunately she and Giano are joined at the hip, and since Giano has been scarce since 2022, that fun little coupling might be over. See Giano's block log for more "fun". :jerkoff: PS: it was a LOT longer. He changed his username several ti...

When I think of bad admins, two names that come to mind are Doug Weller and Bishonen. Both of them think a lot more of themselves than they should, and both of them clearly get an adrenaline rush from the "power" of being an admin - a power that they have a tendency to use erratically and in a petty...

I missed this one during my absence. Down goes Andrevan! He was one of the 5-10 people who interacted with me the most on Wikipedia these past few years. I, for one, am glad to see him gone. He was a real blight on Wikipedia, especially in the area of modern politics. He acted like he knew everythin...

I really don't think that anti-Semitic bias is one of the big neutrality problems on Wikipedia - far from it. There are plenty of counterexamples. Pro-USGOV, pro-CIA bias is orders of magnitude more prominent than anti-Jew bias. But if that's the issue that's able to push Wikipedia criticism into th...