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Nationalism presents one of the most difficult challenges for Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy. In science and mathematics and many other academic disciplines, there is at least a recognised 'scientific consensus' that Wikipedia's policies require all articles to adhere to.  There is not a similar consensus in the history of nations - American schoolchildren are taught a quite different version of the American wars of revolution than English ones.  The English version of the Northern Irish 'Troubles' of the 1970's and 80's differs from the Republican one.  These differences about history also reflect bitter modern disputes, often violent, about nationhood and national identity, about the rights and wrongs and the justice of a cause, about genocide and war.  
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Nationalism presents one of the most difficult challenges for Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy. In science and mathematics and many other academic disciplines, there is at least a recognised 'scientific consensus' that Wikipedia's policies require all articles to adhere to.  There is not a similar consensus in the history of nations - [[Directory:United States of America|American]] schoolchildren are taught a quite different version of the American wars of revolution than [[England|English]] ones.  The English version of the Northern Irish 'Troubles' of the 1970's and 80's differs from the Republican one.  These differences about history also reflect bitter modern disputes, often violent, about nationhood and national identity, about the rights and wrongs and the justice of a cause, about genocide and war.  
  
Such bitter disagreements are brought onto Wikipedia, where editors will fight on the internet over the same issues that have caused division in real life.  The talk pages of these articles can often resemble a battleground.  Often an editor or a group of editors learn to work the system in their favour to promote their own point of view, so that the article will become a stated Wiki fact, and itself a piece of history  This brings up all sorts of moral and ethical issues.  
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Such bitter disagreements are brought onto [[Wikipedia]], where editors will fight on the internet over the same issues that have caused division in real life.  The talk pages of these articles can often resemble a battleground.  Often an editor or a group of editors learn to work the system in their favour to promote their own point of view, so that the article will become a stated Wiki ''fact'', and itself a piece of history  This brings up all sorts of moral and ethical issues.  
  
 
==References on the Fringe Noticeboard==
 
==References on the Fringe Noticeboard==
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard/Archive_13#Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy]
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard/Archive_13#Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy]
  
==Wikipedia’s Communist Propaganda Articles!==
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==Wikipedia’s Political (Communist) Propaganda Articles!==
* [[Directory:Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia|Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia]]
 
 
* [[Bleiburg Massacre and Wikipedia]]
 
* [[Bleiburg Massacre and Wikipedia]]
 
* [[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia]]
 
* [[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia]]
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* [[Directory:Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia|Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia]]
 
* [[User talk:Ockham/Wikipedia & Political Agendas|History of the Balkan states]] (in draft)
 
* [[User talk:Ockham/Wikipedia & Political Agendas|History of the Balkan states]] (in draft)
 
[[Category:Wikipedia]]
 
[[Category:Wikipedia]]

Revision as of 00:37, 8 December 2010

Nationalism presents one of the most difficult challenges for Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy. In science and mathematics and many other academic disciplines, there is at least a recognised 'scientific consensus' that Wikipedia's policies require all articles to adhere to. There is not a similar consensus in the history of nations - American schoolchildren are taught a quite different version of the American wars of revolution than English ones. The English version of the Northern Irish 'Troubles' of the 1970's and 80's differs from the Republican one. These differences about history also reflect bitter modern disputes, often violent, about nationhood and national identity, about the rights and wrongs and the justice of a cause, about genocide and war.

Such bitter disagreements are brought onto Wikipedia, where editors will fight on the internet over the same issues that have caused division in real life. The talk pages of these articles can often resemble a battleground. Often an editor or a group of editors learn to work the system in their favour to promote their own point of view, so that the article will become a stated Wiki fact, and itself a piece of history This brings up all sorts of moral and ethical issues.

References on the Fringe Noticeboard

Wikipedia’s Political (Communist) Propaganda Articles!