what-are-you-stupid-how-wikipedia-editors-abuse-and-insult-contributors
Jan 18th, 2008 by Ashok
This post has been deleted at the request of a Wikipedia contributor. His apology is accepted, although the abusive incident and the fact that it occurred at all, reflects poorly on Wikipedia’s management.
To read more about how Wikipedia fails to contain or curb repeated racial abuse, bigotry, anti-Asian, anti-ethnic prejudice and bias, among several other misuses of its position as a trusted reference source, read this enlightening blog post by another fellow sufferer and also check out this article and this one, and this one too and also this one to know how differently writers of color are treated on the world’s most visited online “encyclopaedia”.
I’d also like to note for the record that I’ve never edited my own Wikipedia Page, and if I had, I would have surely made it far more accurate, balanced, and informative–the present Wikipedia page on me is riddled with rumours, inaccuracies, borderline libellious statements, and a great deal of other statements that neither conform to Wikipedia’s own rules of editing, nor do they cover the basic facts of my life, career, or work satisfactorily.
Oh, and all those links are pointing to defunct or non-existent pages. As I’ve said elsewhere, even I can’t write fiction as well as some of those Wikipedia editors and contributors, except of course, they call it “facts”!
