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 | This page in a nutshell: NPOV doesn’t mean teach the controversy, or golden mean fallacy, or “both sides”, or appeal to the vocal minority or vocal plurality. If you are here to claim otherwise, particularly about certain specific issues related to American politics, you aren’t here for the right reasons. |
In most cases, civil debate is perfectly welcome on Wikipedia.
However, if you are here to right great wrongs over what might be termed Sanger’s Multi-fecta, namely:
- The impeachments of Donald Trump
- Scandals and conspiracy theories related to Joe Biden
- The Antifa and BLM “riots”, as he calls them
- Alleged United States election irregularities, particularly in the 2020 Presidential Election
- COVID-19 conspiracy and fringe theories
Then you aren’t here to build an encyclopedia.
These issues are the obsession of an extremely vocal plurality of American right-wingers, and there are literally millions of other articles that could be improved with minimal controversy. So if you are focusing on those extremely specific issues and trying to insert information on how the consensus on them is “wrong” or “disputed by [some supposedly very smart person]” (see figure A) you are missing the point of Wikipedia.
Additionally, Wikimedia is strongly opposed to all forms of bigotry (racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, religious intolerance etc.) as well as theories overwhelmingly rejected by experts (i.e. creationism, 9/11 conspiracies), climate change denialism, and claims that fascism is not a right-wing ideology. Similar to Sanger’s Multifecta, these issues are basically cut-and-dry, and if you are here specifically to claim otherwise then you might as well just turn around and head to Conservapedia (though as even they hate Nazis and other blatant racists you’ll need to head to Metapedia or Infogalactic if you want to be a Nazi/blatant racist)
In short, WP:NPOV doesn’t mean teach the controversy, or golden mean fallacy, or “both sides”, or appeal to the vocal minority or vocal plurality— especially when it comes to controversies Wikimedia is officially done with.