Nine Theses on Wikipedia: A Special Feature
I submit these nine theses to Wikipedia’s community and to the world. I do this, as Martin Luther said when he posted his famous 95 theses, “Out of love for the truth and the desire to elucidate it.”
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A few notes about Wikipedia’s article “Citizendium”
Page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizendium This is yet another article that looks credible and authoritative to someone who knows little about the subject. But, in fact, it’s simply an awful article. For shame, Wikipedia, for shame. GradesOverall: D−Completeness: FCompetency: DNeutrality: FScholarship: C−Currency: FSimplicity: C Credentials: founder of Citizendium, co-founder of Wikipedia; other experience with online encyclopedia projects and…
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How to set up your LLM as a Bible study tutor
This post gives you a set of project instructions that turn any major LLM into a surprisingly competent Bible study tutor rooted in traditional, small-o orthodox Christianity. It is a companion to my earlier post, “How to Read the Bible All the Way Through for the First Time.” You copy the instructions, paste them into…
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WikiCritic comment: my recollection of the Seigenthaler incident
WikiCritic commentPage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_SeigenthalerRelevant credential: co-founder of WikipediaFirst-hand witness: I received a telephone call from John Seigenthaler, Sr. in the fall of 2005 regarding the defamatory content in his Wikipedia biography.Comment tags: talkback (maybe?) My comment is not a review of the article, but a little piece of history about it. It was, I vaguely recall,…
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WikiCritic review: Unmoved mover
This is a sample encyclopedia article review written to support both Seminarium Theologico-Philosophicum and a new project I am working on for the Knowledge Standards Foundation. This page should illustrate what a fairly complete review of a Wikipedia article would look like, according to the recommended standard of the new WikiCritic system I am building.…
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Wikipedia’s new CEO says “the door is open,” but they banned me for walking through it
This was initially an X.com thread. In it, I respond to a July 16, 2026 New York Times article on the Wikimedia Foundation’s pick for a new CEO. “The door is open” to “more dialogue” with conservatives, says new Wikimedia Foundation CEO Bernadette Meehan in remarks to the New York Times. In the article, there’s…
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Even Claude finds bias throughout Wikipedia
This afternoon, I performed a simple experiment with Claude Opus 4.8 Max. Prompt: “Define ten culture war topics, chosen as a group for breadth (not weighted toward any one discipline). Then look up the main Wikipedia article on each topic and read its lede section. For each, find the two most clearly biased statements it…
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Where I Disagree with the New Polytheists
A little over two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post, which was an elaboration of an X.com thread. The topic: How many gods are there? The thread and, to a lesser extent the blog post (although most of those replying didn’t read it), caused a surprising amount of—ahem—controversy. No small part of the controversy…
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“There is none else beside him”
This is an essay on whether there are multiple gods, according to the Bible. Suffice it to say that there were strong opinions about the May 18 previous version of this; the following day, I revised it, removing the name of a certain Bible scholar. This is just a blog post, not my final word…
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Nature Agreed to Publish My Wikipedia Letter—Then Ghosted Me
Earlier this year, leading scientific journal Nature published an editorial lavishing effusive praise on Wikipedia, writing that it is “an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem.” Naturally (no pun intended), as co-founder, I had to respond, knowing that Wikipedia is increasingly “poisoned” itself. (I call myself ex-founder; I have been called the Emmanuel Goldstein…
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The Principles of Reading Order: A Research Program
Abstract: Much of education may be reduced to a sequencing problem: Given a set of books, in what order should they be read? This question admits of surprisingly rigorous treatment. We can identify several distinct types of dependency between books—topical, historical, procedural, motivational, and supplemental—and state principles governing each. These principles in turn suggest a…
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/larrysanger- An open reply to Jimmy Wales. He's wrong: Grokipedia won't necessarily be biased; and, obviously, the Trump article is badly biased. First of a series of replies to Jimmy's remarks in this Reason exposé: https://reason.com/video/2026/02/23/can-you-trust-wikipedia/
- I invited my X peeps to ask me questions and then "like" the various questions, and I would upload the answers in video form. Here it is! Christian identity – 1:10 "Call no man teacher" – 9:25 Role of government – 15:45 Authority & resistance – 19:15 Wikipedia labor – 24:20 Net value of Wikipedia […]