Comment by cmeacham98

4 years ago

I read through wikipedia AfD occasionally for fun (yeah, I know, I'm a weirdo). I'm not going to say it's never happened ever, but I've never noticed an AfD that ended up with a delete consensus that was obviously started due to an editor's political bias.

Can you provide examples to substantiate this claim?

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flenserboy  4 years ago

Sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/female-scientists-pages-...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wikipedia-bias-1.6129073

  • cmeacham98  4 years ago

    Can you elaborate on how those examples prove your claim? None of those examples seem to show a political bias.

    • flenserboy  4 years ago

      Ok...Kendrick — attacked specifically for questioning the role the cholesterol in heart disease and the efficacy of statins. Read through the discussion and it becomes clear that there are fundamentalists who don't want anyone who, rightly or wrongly, questions a current medical orthodoxy to even be noted. Keeping them off WP in this way is an attempt to write such dissident voices off as loons and not even worth investigating, to make it such that when someone does not appear on WP, it will be a sign that they're not even at the edge of the conversation.

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