I like Wikipedia but with reservations.

  • Sometimes I do the odd grammar fix or link with an IP address. Having a username just makes you a target for ideologues as I've discovered to my cost.

Evidence That Wikipedia Has Always (At Times) Had An Anti-Religious Bias

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These issues I have seen ever since I started to use Wikipedia around 2007 (when "New Atheism" popped up, (not) funnily enough.)

  • Appeal to fear listed under See Also in the Hell article: https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Hell#See_also
  • The amount of times that the words right, wrong, real, good or true are put in quotation marks (if truth doesn't exist then nothing on Wikipedia is true and that defeats the whole point of the website for goodness sake!) is a clear indication that Wikipedians are mainly postmodernists. You can't say that there is no objective truth and be religious. You could be religious and say that since different religions teach different things God would forgive you for making an honest mistake.
  • Most Wikipedians being from a majority Christian country is listed as one of the factors of systemic bias yet there are a fair bit more atheists than Christians who use Wikipedia. Compare the Atheist Wikipedians category to the Christian Wikipedians category.
  • The constant use of BCE/CE as opposed to BC/AD.
  • The Shoehorning article. The whole text of it is an anti-religious polemic and as such is a blatant violation of the Neutral Point Of View policy.
  • The Mein Kampf Wikiquote article spends more time making him out to be a Christian than an anti-Semite, a warmongerer etc.
  • Quotes in Wikiquote that are anti-religious very often being put in bold; even if they're by people who were religious (such as the Lord Acton page, one user, Kalki if I remember correctly, in the talk page for said article even flat out declaring that he was biased and after seeing his page he's clearly anti-religion).
  • The Quebec article describes Catholicism as a cult. Ironic how much blatant bias there is on a website that's supposed to be neutral. The NPOV policy is a joke and has been for many years; if not from the very beginning.
  • Although a website that anyone can edit and the vast majority of people are Christian in the English speaking world quotes in Wikiquote are anti-Christianity far more often than pro-Christianity or any religion at all.Here is a glaring example.
  • Far more userboxes are anti- than pro-any religion or even religion in general and peddle the old atheist chestnut that religion and reason are enemies (everybody thinks reason is on his particular side in all matters) even though we're not the ones who think a huge explosion came not only from nothing but also by nothing and at random.
  • Religion was listed in the Superstition box and so is efficacy of prayer. Young Earth Creationism was also in said box; creationism is stupid, sure, but I fail to see how it's a superstition.
  • For no reason that I can find there's a fictional atheists and agnostics category but fictional Roman Catholics etc. categories are gone.

Liberal bias

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  • The misinformation series only came along after the alternative facts controversy during the Trump administration and not during any period where a liberal's statement was considered dishonest.
  • This tweet, posted by Wikimedia itself puts Wikimedia's ideology beyond any doubt
  • Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia is a libertarian; the original form of liberalism and which is still comprised of social liberalism.
  • When Wikiquote features a political quote it tends to be an anarchist one and libertarianism is just anarchy for rich people with property.
  • The "Reproductive justice" article.
  • If the mainstream media all take the same side on an issue then the article will look highly biased toward that viewpoint. From the Gamergate controversy talk page (emphasis added):

"Anasaitis, just a quick note on our Neutral Point of View policy. It doesn't mean that we're supposed to tell every side like those ProCon books. NPOV says that we as editors are supposed to neutrally summarize (i.e., fairly, accurately, without bias, etc.) what reliable sources say about the subject, and that we're supposed to do so in a way that is roughly proportional to the weight of those sources. Our article reflects what virtually all reliable sources discuss, which is (a) harassment of mostly women in the games industry, (b) ethics claims that have been dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, or groundless, and (c) that this is a right-wing, anti-feminist and anti-diversity cultural backlash. Whether you or I or anyone actually agrees with that assessment doesn't matter. We're here to summarize what reliable sources say, that's all. Woodroar (talk) 00:00, 11 April 2018 (UTC)"

  • The wikilovespride hashtag.

Userboxes

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 This user is an Irish Catholic.
 This user is a Roman Catholic.
 This user believes that the universe began with a big bang when God said, Let there be light.
 This user would like to wish you a happy St. Patrick's Day.
 This user is interested in religion.
respect This user respects others' religions and realises not all people wish to follow the same path.
 This user is interested in religion.
  This user believes Jesus is still relevant in modern times.
 This user's hero is Jesus Christ.
  This user believes the world is a happier, safer and saner place because of religion.
 This user loves and honors Our Lady, but does not worship her!
 This user affirms the doctrine of apostolic succession
NonPThis user is not affiliated with a party.
 This user values Faith and Reason 
  This user does not trust electronic voting machines.
  This user is a member of Wikipedians against censorship.
EuThis user does NOT support euthanasia and is strongly opposed to all forms of eugenics. 
 This user identifies as a leftist.
 This user is against communism.
 
This user believes that capitalism is an inherently unjust system, and that humans can do better.
randThis user opposes Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy.
 
 
This user is anti-fascist who is against racist ideology of the Third Reich, Fascist Italy, NDH and Nedić's Serbia.  
 


  This user
opposes monarchism.
  This user finds censorship offensive.
PC This user believes political correctness was created in good intentions, but is often overused, misused, or taken way out of context.
  This user opposes Imperialism.
 This user is pro-life and pro-family.
 This user dislikes pornography.
 This user supports the independence of Cornwall.


 This user supports the reunification of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.32
 
This user believes in the peaceful reunification of North and South Korea under one government.
 
  This user recognizes the independence of Kosovo.
  This user supports Scottish independence.
  This user supports the independence of Wales.
  This user wants a
World government.
  This user is interested in
the life and times of
Frederick the Great.
 This user wants to stop
global warming.
 This user is an independent voter who doesn't like partisan politics.
  This user supports the European Union.
CUT This user supports Children's rights and opposes all forms of genital mutilation.
 This user supports a free Tibet.
  This user sees nothing wrong with the human form and doesn't view it as something that needs to be hidden.
 
This user thinks nationalism is outdated.
 
This user supports immigration and the right to travel freely upon the planet we share.
 This user believes that the Republic of China is a legitimate nation.
 Just say NO to political correctness.
 This user believes torture is morally wrong and can never be justified, regardless of the situation.
 This user is drug-free.
  This user accepts evolution as a biological fact.
  Mendel is this user's
chromeboy.
 
  This user supports the ban on smoking in public places.
 Though this user believes that God gives men and women different roles in life, he knows that these roles are equal in dignity, and that one gender is not to be exalted above the other.EQUAL
sexThis user wants nothing to do with "the S-word".
 This user is autistic and does not have autism.
Katz's LawThis user knows that men and women will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
 This user opposes Christofascism, but is not opposed to Christianity as a religion.
 This user opposes Hindufascism, but is not opposed to Hinduism as a religion.
File:Allah-eser-green.pngThis user opposes Islamofascism, but is not opposed to Islam as a religion.
 This user opposes Judeofascism, but is not opposed to Judaism as a religion.
FAUX NEWS This user believes that Fox News is not fair or balanced.
 This user is opposed to communism in both theory and practice.
 This user opposes neofeudalism.
Polygon This user dislikes sensationalist, agenda-pushing news sources. Kotaku
 This user practices abstinence.
COMMON REASONThis user believes that "common sense" is a worthless delusion and prefers to argue using reason.
 This user is a child of the 90s.
 This user wishes you a happy German Unity Day.
 This user would like to remind you that today is Remembrance Day.
アニメ
dub
This user prefers to watch
their anime dubbed.
GWThis user is a fan of Gundam Wing.
EFSFThis user wishes to be enlisted in the Universal Century Earth Federation Forces.
星方武侠This user is in search of The Galactic Leyline
This user has been spirited away.
BThis user is a fan of black or dark comedy.
あ!Sata Andagi, Sata Andagi! This user loves Azumanga Daioh.
 This user has a channel on YouTube.
STAR WARSThis user is a Star Wars fan.
 This user has ASD.
 This user maintains a strict policy advising against all personal attacks.
 This user does not understand mean people. Please be nice.
Majority ≠ right This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
  This user is against smoking.
 This user is a male.
AUHKThis user is an Alumni of the University of Hard Knocks
 This user is asexual.
 This user believes that all men are created equal.
32YThis Wikipedian was born on 25 August 1992 and is 32 years, 3 months, and 24 days old.
 This user is single.
 This user is interested in the Napoleonic Wars. 
GThis user will use Google before asking dumb questions.
 This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.
  This user believes in logic.
 This user is interested in ancient Rome.
 This user is interested in the
Middle Ages
 This user is interested in the French Revolution.
 This user loves beautiful women.
 This user believes in being good.
 This user is attracted to red hair.
 This user is attracted to blond hair.