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* "As I have said previously, I consider many Wikipedia users, and particularly administrators, socially dysfunctional computer geeks with no normal interpersonal social skills. To compensate for that lack, they live in the virtual world of Wikipedia, where they pretend that enforcing perceived violations against Wikipedia rules (which rules exist no place but Wikipedia) is actually doing something worthwhile. That personality defect, so common among Wikipedia users, does not make them charming company, and getting thrown out of WP and into the real world is always a refreshing change. " - Parting shot from Banned user:Kwork [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Malcolm_Schosha&oldid=293326095].
 
* "As I have said previously, I consider many Wikipedia users, and particularly administrators, socially dysfunctional computer geeks with no normal interpersonal social skills. To compensate for that lack, they live in the virtual world of Wikipedia, where they pretend that enforcing perceived violations against Wikipedia rules (which rules exist no place but Wikipedia) is actually doing something worthwhile. That personality defect, so common among Wikipedia users, does not make them charming company, and getting thrown out of WP and into the real world is always a refreshing change. " - Parting shot from Banned user:Kwork [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Malcolm_Schosha&oldid=293326095].
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==Contents==
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==The main sources of bias in Wikipedia==
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Deviants|Deviants]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Deviants|Deviants]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Fans|Fans]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Fans|Fans]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Quacks|Quacks]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Quacks|Quacks]]
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Cults|Cults]]
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Cult|Cults]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Activists|Activists]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Activists|Activists]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Cranks|Cranks]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Cranks|Cranks]]
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Conflict of interest and Wikipedia|Commercial]]
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Conflict of interest and Wikipedia|Conflicts of interest]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Governments|Governments]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Governments|Governments]]
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===Cults===
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Cults are groups with strange beliefs who have an interest in publicising their existence, recruiting new members, and usually suppressing the more unpalatable facts about their financial statements and other irregularities. Too many of these to mention, but some of the more amusing include the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma_Kumaris Brahma Kumaris], who seem to enjoy some support among Wikipedians, at least judging from the way that those who opposed them are so [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Golden_Circle regularly blocked], simply for saying stuff like [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Brahma_Kumaris_World_Spiritual_University&diff=prev&oldid=312939427 this] ("You and your other adherents have wasted too much time of too many people's lives ... never mind mentioning the broken families and suicides that litter your religion's history"). The Scientologists did not fare so well, as is well known (their IP is [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/29/wikipedia_bans_scientology/ currently blocked]), but that is only because a group of prominent Wikipedians dislike scientology - it has nothing to do with any self-governing mechanism that prevents cults from promoting their views on the global electronic reference work. See for example [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prem_Rawat Prem Rawat], defended for years by a prominent Wikipedia administrator, although he eventually [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jossi came to grief].
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramtha%27s_School_of_Enlightenment Ramtha's School of Enlightenment], [[What the Bleep]]
      
== Plagiarism ==
 
== Plagiarism ==
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* [[Directory:The_Wikipedia_Point_of_View/Steve_Smith_Plagiarism|Steve Smith Plagiarism]]
 
* [[Directory:The_Wikipedia_Point_of_View/Steve_Smith_Plagiarism|Steve Smith Plagiarism]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Roger Davies plagiarism|Roger Davies plagiarism]]
 
* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Roger Davies plagiarism|Roger Davies plagiarism]]
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== Pseudoscientific topics ==
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* [[Global warming]]
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* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Dealing with pseudoscience | Dealing with pseudoscience]]
      
== Administrative corruption ==
 
== Administrative corruption ==
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