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John Seigenthaler, an American journalist, was the subject of a defamatory Wikipedia hoax article in May 2005. The hoax raised questions about the reliability of Wikipedia and other websites with user-generated content. Since the launch of Wikipedia in 2001, it has faced several controversies. Wikipedia's open-editing model, which allows any user to edit its encyclopedic pages, has led to ...
This is a list of Wikipedia articles deemed controversial because they are constantly re-edited in a circular manner, or are otherwise the focus of edit warring or article sanctions. This page is conceived as a location for articles that regularly become biased and need to be fixed, or articles that were once the subject of an NPOV dispute and ...
[1] [10] [37] In 2005–2006, Wikipedians debated whether to display controversial images from the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons. [39] On internal matters, early disputes included the 2006 userbox controversy, which was resolved partly by placing templates in personal user pages [40] and partly by administration actions by Jimmy Wales. [37]
Pages in category "Controversies in the United States" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
An early example of tampering was in the early 1860s, when a photo was altered using the body from a portrait of John C. Calhoun and the head of Lincoln from a famous seated portrait by Mathew Brady – the same portrait which was the basis for the original Lincoln five-dollar bill.
In 2016, the U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced that the image of Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill would be replaced with an image of Harriet Tubman. "'Where Jackson represented the worst side of American history, Tubman represents the best ideals of American democracy,' said Kari Winter, a professor who studies slavery and dissent at the ...
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List of worker deaths in United States labor disputes; Lists of incidents of unrest and violence in the United States by city. List of incidents of political violence in Washington, D.C. Insurrection Act of 1807; Know-Nothing Riots in United States politics; Mass racial violence in the United States, for race riots