I have assembled a list of the most controversial Wikipedia articles from the data on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Talk_pages_by_size
There are 66 pages from the main article namespace listed there, and they are, in order of total size of all talk page archives, as follows:
- Donald Trump
- Intelligent design
- Climate change
- Barack Obama
- Race and intelligence
- Jesus
- United States
- Catholic Church
- Homeopathy
- Circumcision
- Chiropractic
- Monty Hall problem
- Muhammad
- Gaza War (2008-2009)
- Evolution
- Gamergate controversy
- Abortion
- Sarah Palin
- Prem Rawat
- Christ myth theory
- World War II
- India
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Cold fusion
- Climatic Research Unit email controversy
- September 11 attacks
- Atheism
- Anarchism
- George W. Bush
- Falun Gong
- Armenian Genocide
- Neuro-linguistic programming
- Israel
- Cities and towns during the Syrian civil war
- Jerusalem
- Mass killings under communist regimes
- Transcendental Meditation
- British Isles
- Libertarianism
- Kosovo
- Christianity
- Thomas Jefferson
- International recognition of Kosovo
- United States and state terrorism
- United Kingdom
- Acupuncture
- Israel and the apartheid analogy
- Syrian civil war
- Adolf Hitler
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Russo-Georgian War
- Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Tea Party movement
- Murder of Meredith Kercher
- Genesis creation narrative
- Historicity of Jesus
- Electronic cigarette
- List of best-selling music artists
- Shakespeare authorship question
- List of sovereign states
- Taiwan
- Michael Jackson
- 0.999...
- European Union
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Some of the items on this list...
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right next to each other :yikes:
The internet is just so racist man it's actually unbelievable
The world is racist
You're 100% correct but the internet still surprises me sometimes. I live in South Africa, probably one of the most racist countries in the world, where white kids in high school would casually drop racial slurs that are illegal to say, the aftermath of apartheid is visible everywhere, and the internet still gets me on occasion. I don't know what it is, if it's the anonymity or something, but it fucks with my brain seeing how blatant it gets on the internet.
Anonymity. Everyone just spouts whatever racist shit they want to without inhibition.
absolutely but i've always maintained that biggest assholes and racists are of course going to be both the loudest and some of the most online people. Most normal people don't give one shit about wikipedia battles or go the darker corners of where the racists hang out. Vast majority of people are not like that and just don't care what happens online in those spaces. They're just posting pictures of their pet or looking up recipes and liking shit on social media that is wholesome and family/friends.
I mean I'd be more worried if Obama was an uncontroversial figure, except I know what viewpoints are actually represented in the debate.
He most certainly is but you didn't see George W Bush on there high enough either. Equally comparable in many ways if not more
*wasn't is what i meant
Sorry I kinda worded that weird myself. I was just trying to draw a parallel to those two figures and how starkly different their rankings were while being quite seriously so similar in so many ways. Just one is a black American and the theme of so many of these is racism and bigotry