Talk:Wikipedia

Is Wikipedia all lies?=

Some say Wikipedia is an opinion site.This is not true. Hard workers pay attention to stop vandalism. A person told me that two main vandalism causers on wikipedia are: NeilN and Ian_Thomson. I do not know if this is true. His name was Donald Affreno-Rooney

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Supposed bias or editorial slant

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Some people believe Wikipedia is biased in a specific direction, such as the self-proclaimed "rival" site Conservapedia. Whether actual bias exists can be discussed here.

Forum

I'll go first. What's interesting about Wikipedia is how little trouble the site has with malicious or intentionally wrong edits. Which isn't to say that those edits don't happen (Citation: I tried editing the page on image macro memes to reflect that the dead horse has been beaten into dust), but anything the bots don't notice is usually fixed by a human moderator eventually. (Citation: see previous citation) The mods are so effective that for the most part it's a very constructive community, where people are working to make it as reliable as possible. Wikipedia has been my go-to for basically every school project since fifth grade, and I've yet to see an article that was pushing an agenda. There is some bias in a few historical articles (Citation: a page about the Oregon Trail or pioneers or something that had a complaint about bias at the top), but that's mainly because the group of people who know the most about the event are all from a single country. In a lot of cases, even that doesn't cause bias, but you know how narcissistic America is about its history.

Anyway. The only articles with room for bias that anyone cares about (citation needed) are the controversial political ones like the 2016 election or feminism. The nice thing about having a bunch of total strangers writing articles for something is that everyone has their own opinion, and there's no consistent bias from one article to the next. It really comes down to which political party uses Wikipedia the most.

-Tad Quick (i should really make an account)— Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.177.22.17 (talk) 20:19, 19 January 2018‎ (UTC)

Please see WP:NOTFORUM. This talk page is to discuss specific improvements to the article. To other editors: feel free to remove my comment along with this thread if considered adequate. Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 00:44, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

No that's ridiculous. Your comment is relevant, and just fine even though it's not directly on topic. 75.82.59.114 (talk) 05:30, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

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Pie charts

I find the pie charts, which have no source given, suspect. In particular, the Spanish chart has no US indicated. That seems very unlikely to me. 46.34.204.212 (talk) 06:28, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Cebuano

There should be some explanation why a minor language with a small Wiki community has the second-most number of articles. An explanation is given here: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-there-so-many-articles-in-the-Cebuano-language-on-Wikipedia 46.34.204.212 (talk) 06:44, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Hello anon. That certainly is interesting, and I had wondered about this myself. Unfortunately, Quora is an online forum, and so would not meet Wikipedia's standards for reliability, and I'm afraid we would need to find a higher quality source in order to include the content in the Wikipedia article. GMG^talk 16:15, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Lsjbot could be mentioned. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:49, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 February 2018

Remove "wikiwiki.com" from the list of subsidiary's on the infobox. Therealhuman21 (talk) 00:13, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

 Done — IVORK _Discuss 02:35, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

content

I have very good con ent for you guys Createev (talk) 15:49, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 March 2018

change monies to money 207.163.34.104 (talk) 21:44, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

"Monies" is correct in this context. General Ization ^Talk 21:47, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Irony

Isn't it a bit ironic that this website has its own mainspace page? KingOfBacon (talk) 07:09, 20 March 2018 (UTC)