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Most controversial Wikipedia articles, as measured by total size of talk page archives
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This page lists Wikipedia pages by the total amount of text in all of their talk page archives put together. It is the best measure there is for determining how much squabbling has gone on behind the scenes for a given page.
Here is a ranking of all 63 of the listed pages that are actual articles (as opposed to policy/administrative/user pages), in descending order:
- Donald Trump
- Intelligent design
- Climate change
- Barack Obama
- United States
- Jesus
- Race and intelligence
- Catholic Church
- Circumcision
- Homeopathy
- Muhammad
- Gamergate (harassment campaign)
- Chiropractic
- Abortion
- Monty Hall problem
- Gaza War (2008-2009)
- Evolution
- Prem Rawat
- Sarah Palin
- India
- Israel
- World War II
- Christ myth theory
- Mass killings under communist regimes
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- September 11 attacks
- Cold fusion
- Climatic Research Unit email controversy
- Armenian genocide
- Anarchism
- Atheism
- Falun Gong
- Neuro-linguistic programming
- Jerusalem
- Control of cities during the Syrian civil war
- Kosovo
- British Isles
- Transcendental Meditation
- United Kingdom
- George W. Bush
- Christianity
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Libertarianism
- Acupuncture
- Thomas Jefferson
- International recognition of Kosovo
- Israel and apartheid
- Adolf Hitler
- United States and state terrorism
- Syrian civil war
- List of best-selling music artists
- Julian Assange
- Russo-Georgian War
- Historicity of Jesus
- Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Tea Party movement
- List of common misconceptions
- Murder of Meredith Kercher
- Genesis creation narrative
- Taiwan
- Hillary Clinton
- Electronic cigarette
- Michael Jackson
Bubbling under (present in earlier versions; I have gone back to 2015 so far here, though the page history goes back to 2010):
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- European Union
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
- Shakespeare authorship question
- Fascism
- Astrology
- The Holocaust
- Joseph Smith
- Chelsea Manning
- List of scientists who disagree with the scientific consensus on global warming [NOTE: now deleted]
- Gibraltar
- Ayn Rand
- Fox News
- Shooting of Trayvon Martin
- Human
- Canada
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Race (human categorization)
- Iraq War
- Elvis Presley
- Islam
- Philosophy
- Terri Schiavo case
- Black people
- White people
- Palestinians
- Mitt Romney
- HIV
- Occupy Wall Street
- Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
- Elizabeth II
- Asperger syndrome
- Centrifugal force
- Transnistria
Most people who have it know why, and it has to do with the large swathes of chuds (and libs too) who insist it isn't real, just in your head, an excuse to be lazy, etc. etc. Almost any chronic illness that is hard to diagnose and can't be pinned with complete unambiguous medical certainty to a single clear cause gets that sort of treatment. There are still so many people who don't even believe Lyme disease is real.
Lyme disease isn't real
Case in point.^
Yeah, and it isn't a problem that there are so many people who don't believe Lyme disease is real, because it isn't.
Neither is long Covid. Just a big hoax by lazy whingers. 🙄
Stop trying to hook the chronic lyme scam bandwagon to other stuff. Your posts are very much "one of these things is not like the other".
Um... stop accusing me of weird bullshit while denying reality and calling a medical reality and the experience of countless disabled people pseudoscience?
Anyway, ashiniadash, here you can see why that topic is high on the list of controversial wikipedia pages. Libs gonna lib ig.
The medical reality is the symptoms people experience. The complete bullshit is telling people this is due to mystical nonexistent spirochetes in their blood that can only be treated with a long course of IV antibiotics. This has absolutely fucking nothing to do with liberalism, jfc.
Right, that's exactly what I said. Just like I said Long Covid is actually the result of vaccines. Seriously, you're telling me "my posts" (btw, what are you even referring to? Do we have a history or something?) are this thing you've made up in your head about me because I am pointing out the FACT that a condition exists despite many misled denialists. Chronic Lyme is as real as long covid is even though we don't know what the underlying cause of it is.
No shit! Which is because Lyme Disease is real! Fucking hell, what is your problem?
Calling it chronic lyme links it to a mechanical explanation that is totally nonsensical. Just call it chronic fatigue syndrome then, or fibro. You can't play games here, you know what calling it chronic lyme means. There isn't even a coherent agreed-upon set of symptoms.
No, because that denies that it is linked to the initial Lyme infection somehow and may well have a completely different cause than the more general chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia. Again, that would be like telling people just to call long covid "chronic fatigue."
Those other conditions can be triggered by infections so I don't see what the issue is given the enormous amount of bullshit baggage brought in by calling it chronic lyme.
I had already typed up a response to this when I noticed you went back and edited your previous comment to add shit about me "playing games." So nevermind, not worth it. I'm tired of this obnoxious thing where you make these personal accusations like how I'm "playing games" and about "my posts" (while repeatedly editing your own!) when you don't even know what you're talking about wrt to me or the topic. It's not worth trying to engage with someone who pulls that comment editing shit and attacks me personally for things they made up whole cloth. I'm not playing games here and anyone reading this who wants to learn more about the reality of Lyme and the very real long term problems it causes in many patients diagnosed with it, as well as the hype around unsupported explanations for them that are almost certainly garbage (which I never denied) are welcome to do so without me having to defend myself against your weird toxicity.
All my comments were edited seconds after posting them when I noticed things I wanted to change. imo it's toxic to ascribe doubt of pseudoscientific bullshit to liberalism. As though our scientific view of society isn't what puts us above liberal magical thought about how the market solves everything. I almost certainly know more about lyme than you do.
Acute Lyme disease is 100% unarguably real, the issue is chronic Lyme disease which is based on pseudoscience. The people are most likely suffering from some other idiopathic disease and are being taken advantage of for profit
Right yes, I was referring to chronic lyme.