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Wikipedia disclaimer
[edit]Wikipedia attracts nutheads. A detailed analyis is over at User:Nikodemos/Asymmetric_controversy, partly written by myself. Once you have read that, here is a list of topics I (and others) have come across where there is a large number (or possibly large number of sockpuppets) of fanatical POV-pushers who try (sometimes 24/7) to edit said topics to say what they want, instead of representing a neutral view.
- Anarcho-capitalism and related topics.
- Ayn Rand, Randianism and related topics.
Any content on these articles is not to be trusted. Do your research elsewhere, eg. at a library/bookstore.
Such fanatical POV-pushers tend to do the following things:
- Spam sources promoting one point of view, citing WP:CITE as the official policy, to pass off that view as normal/mainstream/widely held/legitimate.
- Write purely promoting one point of view, leaving other editors to clean up the mess and NPOV the article.
- Write bloated content, with details about a point of view which is completely irrelevant for an encyclopedia such as this, to "gain space" over other points of view.
Policies/guidelines which these POV-pushes ignore and would do well to at least understand: