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Re:Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of a... by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday February 11, 2017 @07:39PM (#13625829)
Wikipedia policy is such that slanderous claims like that about living people should be (and usually are) immediately reverted.
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Re:Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of a... by hackuser on Saturday February 11, 2017 @10:44PM (#13626564)
I know the policy; I've seen it ignored many times. Also, that applies only to articles about living people.
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Re:Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of a... by redsummer on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:18PM (#13625994)
What does this mean in practice? Editors on Wikipedia are not a balanced cross-section of the world. I would guess they at 90% male, nerdy, middle class, and disproportionately liberal. This will be reflected in their articles, and the leeway given to certain 'facts'. And god help you if there is an article edited about you after you die - then the gloves are off and slander is fine.
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