I'm reading the wiki articles on the George Floyd 2020 protests and the Freedom Convoy protests together, alternating paragraphs, and the differences are interesting; the 2020 protest page feels more "factual" and the convoy protest page feels more "angry" to me.
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The 2020 ones are clearly covered in better tones despite reporting stronger facts; like "it was mostly peaceful/for a good cause, and yeah a lot of damage was caused" whereas the Convoy protest is like "and then the protesters appropriated native culture by drumming"
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last night i was comparing the BLM vs freedom convoy wiki and the freedom convoy mentions violence and the far-right at the top of the article, whereas BLM says absolutely nothing about property destruction or rioting
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The people writing the Freedom Convoy protest articles are obviously being kept up at night.
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Try checking 2020 version of george floyd protests article. Maybe the articles just get more factual with time.
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Maybe try it again in a year when the edit wars have calmed down & the articles have been smoothed out to a similar extent?
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isn't this simply because Wikipedia needs to cite secondary sources such as reputable mainstream media articles, which makes the tone inevitable?
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Fascinating to see the different attitudes of writing & thinking
Here’s a the best explanation I’ve seen for it
Factual = scientist
Angry = fanatic
Top and bottom of this chart
Apologies for the rabbit hole I’m about to send you on
waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/thinki
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