Is Wikipedia biased

Answer 1

In some areas, yes. In other areas, no. The wikipedia is free for anyone to edit - and, as a result some people may introduce biases or prejudices into the articles that they edit.

However, there is a series of checks and counterbalances which prevent this for the most part. Unfortunately, many of those who control those rigidly follow a politically correct construct that is biased itself.

Although, due to the wikipedia's large American user-base, the wikipedia does exhibit an incredibly large bias towards America, Americanisation, American views of other cultures/governments/etc., American English (as opposed to English, or English English as referred to in America), American Culture, etc.

For example, American celebrities or specialists may get entered into the wikipedia far more easily than celebrities and specialists of other nationalities - and a short time after the Swine Flu epidemic broke out, the wikipedia page for the 2009 outbreak listed almost every suspected case in America, whereas the Cases in Mexico, which numbered in it's hundreds (and later thousands) and is where the epidemic started, received nothing more than a a couple of lines.

Answer 2

In spite of Wikipedia's policy called "Neutral Point of View", most of the independent editors of Wikipedia articles prefer to concentrate only on the policy of "Verifiability", which states that the "...threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth-whether readers can check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published..."

In other words, their priority is that statements made in articles be published; whether they are actually factual information is secondary.

Their pages have been as truthful and more up-to-date as any journal published.

Answer 3

WikiAnswers is not a biased site, it doesn't favor the right or left. Nor does Wikipedia.

Answer 4

Wikipedia's information on 9/11 is like what you would find in an encyclopedia except it is more current. Contact that site to voice your concerns.

Answer 5

They try very hard to be neutral, but since anyone can add information, some of it does end up being biased.