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Sure, compare these articles:

1. Taylor Lorenz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Lorenz

2. Christopher Rufo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Rufo

Both have had their fair share of controversies. However, you would never know it from reading the first second of Lorenz's article. In fact, much of the article focuses on the harassment she has received. Rufo's article doesn't have a section dedicated to the harassment he has received. (I don't know for a fact that he has, but I just expect him to have been the victim of some harassment based on his public position.) Lorentz's article does touch on some of her controversies, but the tone is totally different.

N.B. I don't know much about either person, I'm just noting that their articles have different tones which I suspect is for ideological reasons.




> I don't know for a fact that he has, but I just expect him to have been the victim of some harassment based on his public position.

Do you also expect there are reliable secondary sources describing the harassment that you expect he’s received?


Very peculiar examples. Do you object to the section about the harassment of Lorenz or the absence of a section on harassment for Christopher Rufo?


I'm not sure what needs to be in the Wikipedia article. But I think that's not necessary to say that, when all I'm accusing Wikipedia of is a double standard.

If I said "the justice system gives men harsher sentences than women for the same crime", I wouldn't necessarily have to know whether men should be given more lenient sentences or women should be given harsher sentences, if I only wanted to say that the current situation is unfair and something should change.

I think it's fine to put all of Rufo's controversial stuff at the beginning of his article, but they didn't do it for Lorenz, and I didn't see a plausible reason other than "they like Lorenz and don't like Rufo".


I think it is necessary to say that if you want to make a meaningful critique since otherwise you can simply point out differences in any two articles and call that bias.


Wikipedia is just another cafeteria for those food fights to play out.

I have no ideas how Wikipedia could or should better handle these food fights. Ideas?




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