Wikipedia, a work worth criticizing, is a work in progress, hopefully
Theresa May (left) and Andrea Leadsom (right) were contenders to replace David Cameron. Leadsom's Wikipedia biography was edited to remove unflattering material by an anon IP that The Guardian reported as geolocating suspiciously close to her local constituency office.
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"GamerGate article as "one of the most biased pages on Wikipedia."" THB, the article seems to do very little to distance itself from saying that Gamergate supporters are bad. Nergaal (talk) 13:34, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
1516.4%" statistics makes the same mistake I see time and time again in every gender bias discussion: it makes the assumption that the number proves gender bias on Wikipedia without ruling out the possibility that the number is merely exposing the gender bias in society. For instance, women have for thousands of years and for the most part of written history been relegated to background roles and this is still largely true today. Given that fact one would not expect about 50% coverage of women by our notability standards. So what is the coverage that should be expected? Maybe Wikipedians do not have a big gender bias in coverage and the1516.4% figure is just mirroring the accumulated bias against women throughout history, including today. Such a deeper analysis requires thought and careful consideration rather than just a knee-jerk reaction and I wish people would put more effort into studying it. Jason Quinn (talk) 09:05, 22 July 2016 (UTC) EDIT: added "the Cracked article" Jason Quinn (talk) 15:26, 22 July 2016 (UTC) EDIT2: fixed 15 to 16.4 percent so the context is clearer. Jason Quinn (talk) 16:21, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]Meh. Go complain to those who get paid to edit. Praemonitus (talk) 21:17, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]