| This is a classic example of impugning the truth by advocating for it with fallacious arguments. Pretending that Donald Trump is not a big fat liar is just ridiculous. Even when he's telling the truth he's lying because he exaggerates everything. But pretending that his Wikipedia article is neutral is equally ridiculous. Here's a random example. Remember that immigrant family separation thing? What actually happened was, there was an existing policy that children were separated from their parents if their parents were in detention. Under Obama that didn't apply to many people because not many people were being detained. Then Trump started prosecuting immigration violations and the number of detentions, and therefore separations, went up. Here's Wikipedia: > Previous administrations had no such policy of generally separating migrant families with children. Here's the NPR article they cite for the proposition: > Previous administrations did not, as a general principle, separate all families crossing the U.S. border illegally. Previous administrations did not, as a general principle, prosecute all families crossing the U.S. border illegally. The families thereby weren't separated as a general principle because the parents weren't being detained as a general principle, not because there was no separation policy when the parents were being detained. This sort of thing is endemic. Paper over the nuance to make the other team look bad. And it's as much NPR here as it is Wikipedia, but balance would have been to find the other half of the story and put it in the article. |
Wikipedia endorses any well-established" news site, with no requirements that those sites cite their sources.
Wikipedia rules require peer review for academic research that is cited, but not for private commercial news operations nor NPR.
And despite how weak Wikipedia's rules are, enforcement of those rules is a farce. Anything remotely questionable is controlled by who ever manages to win control of the page, leading to articles that are mer copies of press releases and corporate websites.
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