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Welcome to '''The Wikipedia Point of View'''.
 
Welcome to '''The Wikipedia Point of View'''.
  
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But it has become apparent that the NPOV policy has failed Wikipedia in many areas.  This has happened for many reasons, to be documented in '''The Wikipedia Point of View'''.
 
But it has become apparent that the NPOV policy has failed Wikipedia in many areas.  This has happened for many reasons, to be documented in '''The Wikipedia Point of View'''.
  
: "If there’s one thing I hope people take from this sort of issue, it’s that there really is a “Wikipedia perspective” on almost any controversial subject. As you’ve recognized, that perspective is extremely insular and values “civility” – which translates to '''“avoidance of all negative reactions to, or personal criticism of, established Wikipedians”''' – above almost anything else, including morality, accuracy, and fairness. Meanwhile, Jimbo & Co. realized a long time ago that drama and controversy are just another recruitment strategy. Jimbo in particular won’t step in to try and quell it unless his personal interests are threatened". ("Somey" of [http://wikipediareview.com Wikipedia Review]).
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*"If there’s one thing I hope people take from this sort of issue, it’s that there really is a “Wikipedia perspective” on almost any controversial subject. As you’ve recognized, that perspective is extremely insular and values “civility” – which translates to '''“avoidance of all negative reactions to, or personal criticism of, established Wikipedians”''' – above almost anything else, including morality, accuracy, and fairness. Meanwhile, Jimbo & Co. realized a long time ago that drama and controversy are just another recruitment strategy. Jimbo in particular won’t step in to try and quell it unless his personal interests are threatened". ("Somey" of [http://wikipediareview.com Wikipedia Review]).
  
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*Encyclopedias are compendiums of ''settled'', ''broadly-agreed'', and ''largely non-controversial scholarship''. They are not newspapers, they are not research journals, they are not book reviews, they are not giant rubbish heaps of every possible theory on any given topic. This is why Wikipedia is either: a) not an encyclopedia at all; or b) the world's worst encyclopedia. (Gomi of Wikipedia Review).
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*"... the currently seriously malfunctioning Wikipedia experiment, which has gone from being a well-intentioned experiment run by a few nerds to being a source of defamation and misinformation so powerful that it's having a genuine and noticeable corrosive effect on the world's media.  One of the key issues in that is the discussion of the pros and cons of the Wikimedia Foundation's almost unique decision to allow children unrestricted access to positions of authority in which they're obliged to make serious ethical and legal decisions (often on extremely sensitive issues, such as the ethics of publishing material likely negatively to impact real-life medical diagnoses, the ethics of a charitably-funded educational institution maintaining a large-scale collection of hardcore pornography, or the appropriate way to handle defamation on a massive scale, which is beyond the ability of a rapidly shrinking volunteer group to control completely). Many people feel that people below the age of legal responsibility should not be taking decisions of this nature, and that allowing them to do so has serious moral and legal implications for the adults involved". - Eva of Wikipedia Review - [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=28039&st=60&#entry214736]
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* "Essentially the Pol Pot view that the scientists should be down in the mud weeding plants along with everybody else, if they haven't already been executed. I've compared the structure of WP to the Khmer Rouge more than once. Nobody gets killed, imprisoned, tortured, fired, censored, or had their books or papers burned on WP, but that's not because nobody would be willing to, I think." Milton of Wikipedia Review - [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=29724&view=findpost&p=239288].
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* "As I have said previously, I consider many Wikipedia users, and particularly administrators, socially dysfunctional computer geeks with no normal interpersonal social skills. To compensate for that lack, they live in the virtual world of Wikipedia, where they pretend that enforcing perceived violations against Wikipedia rules (which rules exist no place but Wikipedia) is actually doing something worthwhile. That personality defect, so common among Wikipedia users, does not make them charming company, and getting thrown out of WP and into the real world is always a refreshing change. " - Parting shot from Banned user:Kwork [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Malcolm_Schosha&oldid=293326095].
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==The main sources of bias in Wikipedia==
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Deviants|Deviants]]
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Fans|Fans]]
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Quacks|Quacks]]
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Cult|Cults]]
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Activists|Activists]]
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Cranks|Cranks]]
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Conflict of interest and Wikipedia|Conflicts of interest]]
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Governments|Governments]]
  
 
== Plagiarism ==
 
== Plagiarism ==
  
 
* [[Directory:The_Wikipedia_Point_of_View/Flying Toaster RfA|Flying Toaster RfA]]
 
* [[Directory:The_Wikipedia_Point_of_View/Flying Toaster RfA|Flying Toaster RfA]]
 
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* [[Directory:The_Wikipedia_Point_of_View/Steve_Smith_Plagiarism|Steve Smith Plagiarism]]
== Pseudoscientific topics ==
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Roger Davies plagiarism|Roger Davies plagiarism]]
 
 
* [[Neurolinguistic programming]]
 
** [[List of Neurolinguistic programming companies]]
 
** [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/The_Structure_of_Magic | The Structure of Magic]]
 
** [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/NLP and science (Wikipedia)|NLP and science (Wikipedia)]]
 
* [[Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing]]
 
* [[What the Bleep]]
 
* [[Global warming]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Studies on Neurolinguistic programming | Studies on Neurolinguistic programming]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Dealing with pseudoscience | Dealing with pseudoscience]]
 
 
 
== History ==
 
 
 
* [[Port Arthur Massacre (Wikipedia)]]
 
 
 
== 'Alternative sexuality' topics ==
 
 
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Wikipaedophilia | Wikipaedophilia]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Pederasty | Pederasty]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality | The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Wikibestia | Wikibestia]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/FT2 on Animal Films | FT2 on Animal Films]]
 
  
 
== Administrative corruption ==
 
== Administrative corruption ==
  
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/TBP|TBP]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/TBP|TBP]]
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Law|The Case of Law]]
  
 
== Sceptics or scientists who have been blocked from Wikipedia ==
 
== Sceptics or scientists who have been blocked from Wikipedia ==
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Dpeterson | Dpeterson]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Dpeterson | Dpeterson]]
 
* [[Peter Damian (Wikipedia editor)]]
 
* [[Peter Damian (Wikipedia editor)]]
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** [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Editors Trade Union]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Peter Damian Evidence | Peter Damian Evidence]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Peter Damian Evidence | Peter Damian Evidence]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/ScienceApologist | ScienceApologist]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/ScienceApologist | ScienceApologist]]
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* David Blomstrom ''[http://knol.google.com/k/david-blomstrom/wikipedia/1i6e04re3w2kp/5# Wikipedia: The Online Reference Anyone Can Edit]''.
 
* David Blomstrom ''[http://knol.google.com/k/david-blomstrom/wikipedia/1i6e04re3w2kp/5# Wikipedia: The Online Reference Anyone Can Edit]''.
 
* Carl Hewitt ''[http://knol.google.com/k/carl-hewitt/corruption-of-wikipedia/pcxtp4rx7g1t/5# Corruption of Wikipedia (http://wikicensored.info)]''
 
* Carl Hewitt ''[http://knol.google.com/k/carl-hewitt/corruption-of-wikipedia/pcxtp4rx7g1t/5# Corruption of Wikipedia (http://wikicensored.info)]''
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** [http://cid-34e006e39d8b691b.office.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Corruption/Corruption%5E_of%5E_Wikipedia-150.pdf Full version here]
 
* Kohs & al: [[Criticism of crowdsourcing]]
 
* Kohs & al: [[Criticism of crowdsourcing]]
 
* [[Wikipedia scandals]] (see also [[Wikipedia Vandalism Study]])
 
* [[Wikipedia scandals]] (see also [[Wikipedia Vandalism Study]])
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Criticisms of Wikipedia - A Compendium|Criticisms of Wikipedia - A Compendium]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Criticisms of Wikipedia - A Compendium|Criticisms of Wikipedia - A Compendium]]
 
* [http://thewebserviceblog.co.uk/2008/10/31/wikipedia-sucks Wikipedia sucks] - better than the title suggests.
 
* [http://thewebserviceblog.co.uk/2008/10/31/wikipedia-sucks Wikipedia sucks] - better than the title suggests.
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*[http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=19776&view=findpost&p=191959 Highly educated people have better things to do with their lives than entertain nutcases] - nice comment by taiwopanfob of the Wikipedia Review.
  
 
== Wikipedia Review ==
 
== Wikipedia Review ==
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== Strange or crappy articles ==
 
== Strange or crappy articles ==
 
=== 'Metaphysics' ===
 
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_Master_Teachings Ascended_Master_Teachings]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_Master Ascended_Master]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(metaphysics) Plane_(metaphysics)]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanationism Emanationism]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmogony Cosmogony]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondual Nondual]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo Sri_Aurobindo]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject-object_problem Subject-object_problem]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahdat-ul-Wujood Wahdat-ul-Wujood]
 
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_(healing_or_psychic_or_spiritual) Energy Healing]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection Astral_projection]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apport Apport]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleportation Teleportation] "The most famous example of teleportation in the history of paranormal phenomena is the Filipino guardia civil during the Spanish era, who suddenly disappeared from his post in the governor general’s palace and appeared in Mexico City half way around the world. The bewildered soldier could not explain how he got there."
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Paranormal_worlds_and_bodies  Category:Paranormal_worlds_and_bodies]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Theosophical_philosophical_concepts Category:Theosophical_philosophical_concepts]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_mental_plane Higher_mental_plane]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_body Astral_body]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etheric_plane Etheric_plane]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_body Mental_body]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_plane Mental_plane]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucian_Fellowship#The_Seven_Worlds_.26_the_Seven_Cosmic_Planes The Seven Cosmic Planes]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oversoulful_plane Oversoulful_plane]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_cosmology Esoteric_cosmology]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Implicate_and_Explicate_Order_according_to_David_Bohm&oldid=234599567 Implicate and Explicate Order]
 
 
=== Paranormal ===
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitation_(paranormal) Levitation_(paranormal)]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogic_flying Yogic_flying]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psionics Psionics]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noetic_Consciousness Noetic_Consciousness]
 
 
=== Fancruft ===
 
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Neon_Genesis_Evangelion Neon_Genesis_Evangelion]
 
  
 
== Wikipedia and Academia ==
 
== Wikipedia and Academia ==

Latest revision as of 19:59, 26 July 2010

Welcome to The Wikipedia Point of View.

Pretty much any subject you search Google for – let's say 'Neurolinguistic programming', the article about it in Wikipedia comes first in the ranking. That makes Wikipedia an attractive target for determined groups of individuals who want to present their idea or product in a global market, free of charge. Join the encylopedia that anyone can edit, write an article about, let's say, Neurolinguistic programming, and you have as much free advertising as you want.

Wikipedia has a Neutral Point of View policy. This requires you to write not what you believe to be true – not even if you know it to be true, in the philosopher's justified true belief sense - but only what is verifiable. The theory is that any overtly biased article on NLP, crystal healing, or whatever, will be overwritten by someone else who will come along and edit the article to a more 'neutral point of view'. He, or she who can cite reputable, authoritative peer-reviewed research against the many strange and idiosyncratic views we encounter in real life, in quack medicine, from proponents of 'alternative sexuality' viewpoints, and so on.

But it has become apparent that the NPOV policy has failed Wikipedia in many areas. This has happened for many reasons, to be documented in The Wikipedia Point of View.

  • "If there’s one thing I hope people take from this sort of issue, it’s that there really is a “Wikipedia perspective” on almost any controversial subject. As you’ve recognized, that perspective is extremely insular and values “civility” – which translates to “avoidance of all negative reactions to, or personal criticism of, established Wikipedians” – above almost anything else, including morality, accuracy, and fairness. Meanwhile, Jimbo & Co. realized a long time ago that drama and controversy are just another recruitment strategy. Jimbo in particular won’t step in to try and quell it unless his personal interests are threatened". ("Somey" of Wikipedia Review).
  • Encyclopedias are compendiums of settled, broadly-agreed, and largely non-controversial scholarship. They are not newspapers, they are not research journals, they are not book reviews, they are not giant rubbish heaps of every possible theory on any given topic. This is why Wikipedia is either: a) not an encyclopedia at all; or b) the world's worst encyclopedia. (Gomi of Wikipedia Review).
  • "... the currently seriously malfunctioning Wikipedia experiment, which has gone from being a well-intentioned experiment run by a few nerds to being a source of defamation and misinformation so powerful that it's having a genuine and noticeable corrosive effect on the world's media. One of the key issues in that is the discussion of the pros and cons of the Wikimedia Foundation's almost unique decision to allow children unrestricted access to positions of authority in which they're obliged to make serious ethical and legal decisions (often on extremely sensitive issues, such as the ethics of publishing material likely negatively to impact real-life medical diagnoses, the ethics of a charitably-funded educational institution maintaining a large-scale collection of hardcore pornography, or the appropriate way to handle defamation on a massive scale, which is beyond the ability of a rapidly shrinking volunteer group to control completely). Many people feel that people below the age of legal responsibility should not be taking decisions of this nature, and that allowing them to do so has serious moral and legal implications for the adults involved". - Eva of Wikipedia Review - [1]
  • "Essentially the Pol Pot view that the scientists should be down in the mud weeding plants along with everybody else, if they haven't already been executed. I've compared the structure of WP to the Khmer Rouge more than once. Nobody gets killed, imprisoned, tortured, fired, censored, or had their books or papers burned on WP, but that's not because nobody would be willing to, I think." Milton of Wikipedia Review - [2].
  • "As I have said previously, I consider many Wikipedia users, and particularly administrators, socially dysfunctional computer geeks with no normal interpersonal social skills. To compensate for that lack, they live in the virtual world of Wikipedia, where they pretend that enforcing perceived violations against Wikipedia rules (which rules exist no place but Wikipedia) is actually doing something worthwhile. That personality defect, so common among Wikipedia users, does not make them charming company, and getting thrown out of WP and into the real world is always a refreshing change. " - Parting shot from Banned user:Kwork [3].

The main sources of bias in Wikipedia

Plagiarism

Administrative corruption

Sceptics or scientists who have been blocked from Wikipedia

Other Wikipedian sceptics

See also Expert_withdrawal

Editors who are not sceptical

Guide to Wikipedia

Sceptics

Criticism of Wikipedia

Wikipedia Review

Strange or crappy articles

Wikipedia and Academia

Amusement