US Edition'Gaza Genocide' Wikipedia Page Drives Backlash Over Bias
- On November 4th the English-language `Gaza genocide` page remained locked after Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder and chair emeritus, blocked edits pending dispute resolution.
- Wales said the article failed neutrality standards by presenting the genocide characterisation as fact, breaching WP:NPOV and WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV, and urged volunteer editors to use high-quality sources and separate fact from legal claims.
- Humanitarian reports show extensive casualties in Gaza, with nearly 69,000 killed and 170,670 wounded, Gaza's Ministry of Health said Sunday; about 470,000 face starvation, the British Red Cross reported last month.
- Community responses ranged from praise to accusations of overreach, with one editor calling Wales's statement patronising, while Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson Lauren Dickinson clarified that volunteer Wikipedia administrators, not Wales, protect pages.
- Amid political pressure on Wikipedia, Republican lawmakers including Senator Ted Cruz intensified scrutiny, while Wales said he will lead an NPOV working group and discussed neutrality during his media tour for The Seven Rules of Trust.
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Several editors dispute the decision to block it: "Paternalistic despise the community, accusing it of wrong for having followed the opinions of the UN, the scholars and the main NGOs. Wales: "The duty of a wikipedian is not to take sides, but to document in a neutral way."
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Jimmy Wales criticizes the article in English on the war in Gaza: "Don't respect our standards" . Editors rebel: "Want to impose a political line"
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