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how to spot an activist on wikipedia? asked and answered. opinions among wikipedians are like bubbles in champaign. look for debasing comments on the subject in the text of any article. those comments might need to be scrubbed pretty hard. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.247.25.6 (talk) 18:15, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

According to this article (I hate reading

I suspect this essay is more concerned about

tendentious editing than about the fact that WP is an education advocacy project... —PaleoNeonate – 23:56, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply

]

May be worth mentioning: it's common when after failing to push unsourced material or unreliable sources, to then quote mine specific parts of more acceptable sources and suggest a conclusion that is not necessarily that of the citations. It's close to synthesis, but still distinct and a textbook feature of deceptive propaganda... —PaleoNeonate – 23:14, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a classic example: creationists quoting Darwin's introductory question in relation to the

I added a subsection, input/improvements welcome. If someone knows it, I also failed to see the date for the New Scientist article[2] so only the |access-date= parameter was supplied for now. —PaleoNeonate – 15:18, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]