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RationalWiki has a set of community standards to which it sometimes/somewhat adheres. For example, it states "Talk pages should ''never'' be deleted" but in actual practice, talk pages deemed to consist of [[trolling]] sometimes are deleted. RationalWiki does not aspire to be a general purpose encyclopedia like Wikipedia; therefore, pages deemed to be off-mission are deleted. Such decisions are made through a mobocratic process. | RationalWiki has a set of community standards to which it sometimes/somewhat adheres. For example, it states "Talk pages should ''never'' be deleted" but in actual practice, talk pages deemed to consist of [[trolling]] sometimes are deleted. RationalWiki does not aspire to be a general purpose encyclopedia like Wikipedia; therefore, pages deemed to be off-mission are deleted. Such decisions are made through a mobocratic process. | ||
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Former [[Conservapedia]] sysop and [[A Storehouse of Knowledge]] founder Philip J. Rayment harshly criticized RationalWiki as, "[A] place of filthy and blasphemous language, replete with name-calling, smearing, innuendo, hypocrisy, and other undesirable attributes".[http://www.astorehouseofknowledge.info/index.php?title=User_talk:Philip_J._Rayment&diff=14129&oldid=14127] | Former [[Conservapedia]] sysop and [[A Storehouse of Knowledge]] founder Philip J. Rayment harshly criticized RationalWiki as, "[A] place of filthy and blasphemous language, replete with name-calling, smearing, innuendo, hypocrisy, and other undesirable attributes".[http://www.astorehouseofknowledge.info/index.php?title=User_talk:Philip_J._Rayment&diff=14129&oldid=14127] RationalWiki is often criticized as intolerant toward dissident opinions, since many ideas later accepted as factual are initially regarded as "crank" ideas. [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] argues, "RationalWiki doesn't seem to realize that science is dynamic, and established theories may be rejected in the future."[https://encyclopediadramatica.es/RationalWiki#Trolling_RationalWiki] | ||
Many of those critical of RationalWiki refer to the website as "RatWiki" or "IrrationalWiki". Although [[Liberapedia]] is mostly supportive of the wiki, it is critical of its perceived conservative bias.{{fact}} One of the more famous essays on this topic, linked by hundreds of pages and probably more by broken external links to the defunct RationalWikiWiki page, is "I thought this was supposed to be RATIONALWiki".[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:I_thought_this_was_supposed_to_be_RATIONALWiki] One of the more thorough critiques of RationalWiki's claims to rationality is [[Maratrean]]'s "Is RationalWiki really rational?"[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:Is_RationalWiki_really_rational%3F] Customarily, one is entitled or encouraged or required to imbibe whenever someone complains that RationalWiki users' thinking or behavior is irrational and that this is contrary to the ideals implied by the site's name. | Many of those critical of RationalWiki refer to the website as "RatWiki" or "IrrationalWiki". Although [[Liberapedia]] is mostly supportive of the wiki, it is critical of its perceived conservative bias.{{fact}} One of the more famous essays on this topic, linked by hundreds of pages and probably more by broken external links to the defunct RationalWikiWiki page, is "I thought this was supposed to be RATIONALWiki".[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:I_thought_this_was_supposed_to_be_RATIONALWiki] One of the more thorough critiques of RationalWiki's claims to rationality is [[Maratrean]]'s "Is RationalWiki really rational?"[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:Is_RationalWiki_really_rational%3F] Customarily, one is entitled or encouraged or required to imbibe whenever someone complains that RationalWiki users' thinking or behavior is irrational and that this is contrary to the ideals implied by the site's name. | ||
Among the wikis that have articles positively or negatively critiquing RationalWiki are [[ChildWiki]],[http://childwiki.net/wiki/RationalWiki] [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]],[https://encyclopediadramatica.es/RationalWiki] [[Liberapedia]],[http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/RationalWiki] [[Libertapedia]],[http://libertapedia.org/wiki/RationalWiki] [[PolyWiki]],[http://polywiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki] and [[SuicideWiki]].[http://suicidewiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki] Wikipedia has a brief description of RationalWiki in its Conservapedia article. Conservapedia seems to prefer to pretend that RationalWiki doesn't exist and to treat it as an [[wikipedia:unperson|unwiki]] (in the Orwellian sense). Three RationalWiki articles have been hurled down the Conservapedia memory hole, and presently it is protected from being re-created.[http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&page=RationalWiki] | |||
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