Preposterous Universe
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Controversy
Wikipedia is a free web-based encyclopedia, constructed entirely out of contributions from folks out there on the internets. A nice idea, but obviously you need some mechanisms for quality control, not to mention resolving disputes over how to present certain material. Consequently, there is a long list of entries that are currently in "NPOV Dispute," for "Neutral Point of View." Leaving aside the issue of whether such a thing is philosophically possible, it is extremely illuminating to have a look at the topics currently under dispute -- it's a reflection of what issues are currently regarded as controversial in the world.
- Apartheid
- Talk:Atheism
- Arab anti-Semitism
- Ariel Sharon
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Augusto Pinochet
- British National Party
- Communism
- Creationism
- Class warfare
- Cannibalism
- Collectivism
- Chechnya
- Child sexual abuse
- Circumcision
- Chiropractic medicine
- Talk:Caste
- Talk:Evolution
- Exxon Mobil
- Foreign relations of France
- Talk:Fascism
- FOX News
- Fundamentalism
- God
- Genocide
- Glasnost
- Golan Heights
- Homeschooling
- History of Israel
- Hamas
- Hezbollah
- Iran
- Israel
- Islamism
- Israeli settlement
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Intelligent design
- Irreducible complexity
- Jerusalem
- Karl Popper
- Kosovo War
- Kabbalah
- Kosovo
- Muhammad
- Malaysia
- Micronation
- Open Directory Project
- Palestine
- Palestinian Authority
- Phoenicia
- Peace Now
- Palestine Liberation Organization
- List of purported cults
- Palestinian terrorism
- Silvio Berlusconi
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Sexual intercourse
- Saint Peter
- Sealand
- Talk:Sealand
- Violence against Israelis
- West Bank
- Wal-Mart
- Yasser Arafat
- 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- Talk:NASA
- Brainwashing
- Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2001
- Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2002
- History of Azerbaijan
- War on Terrorism
- Boer War
- Independent Media Center
- Turkic peoples
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Ukrainian language
- Proposals for a Palestinian state
- Corporate personhood
- Affirmative action
- Spanking
- Jenin
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Talk:Freedom of speech
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
- Religious prostitution
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict timeline
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- Jewish mythology
- Talk:Bigfoot
- Talk:Dhimmi
- Talk:Chomsky and alleged anti-semitism
- Deir Yassin massacre
- Hebrews
- Celtic Christianity
- Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
- Al-Aqsa Intifada
- José Bové
- Talk:Micronation
- Eli Siegel
- Palestinian exodus
- Karantania
- Satanic ritual abuse
- Kurdistan
- Timeline of Slovene history
- Anti-Zionism
- Henry James
- U.S. list of state sponsors of international terrorism
- List of Muslims
- Prophecy
- Ford Foundation
- Palestinian territories
- Robert Conquest
- Foreskin
- World Conference against Racism
- Medes
- Bumiputra
- Israel Shahak
- Wang
- Great Purge
- Armenian Genocide
- Wikipedia:Vandalism
- Third Battle of Panipat
- Canadian identity
- Talk:Hittites
- User:Vudujava
- Fred A. Leuchter
- Alberto Fujimori
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Loop quantum gravity
- Khalistan
- Christianity and Jewish prophecy
- Demographic history of the United States
- Republic Advisory Committee
- Exurb
- Idea
- Talk:Finland-Swedish
- Mau Mau
- Assault weapon
- Talk:Hugo Chávez/Archive01
- Islam and anti-Semitism
- Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2003
- Franjo Tudjman
- Pat Buchanan
- Bush family conspiracy theory
- Talk:Republic of Macedonia
- List of notable eccentrics
- The Late Late Show
- Dispute over the name of the Sea of Japan
- Jewish fundamentalism
- Siege of Sarajevo
- Cyprus dispute
- Civil religion
- Anti-French sentiment in the United States
- Artificial consciousness
- Oil for food
- Talk:George W. Bush
- Amin al-Husayni
- Subhash Chandra Bose
- Non-standard cosmology
- False memory
- Immanuel Velikovsky
- Logorrhoea
- Talk:Jean-Marie Le Pen
- Restorative justice
- Medical analysis of circumcision
- Welfare state
- Wikipedia talk:Censorship
- Iranians
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