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'''Wikipedia bias on circumcision''' has been an issue from the very beginning of Wikipedia.
Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia in 2001, told of his embarrassment of what Wikipedia has become. Sanger called Wikipedia "<b>a wholly unreliable source of information</b>", speaking primarily of political narrative. Sanger appeared on the Tucker Carlson show, where he "called out the 'Wikipedia game' being played by biased and partisan editors that constantly change and shape articles on the site".<ref name="sanger2021">{{REFweb
|url=https://conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/wikipedia-embarrassed-former-website.htm
|title=Wikipedia co-founder embarrassed over how ‘badly biased’ his former website has become
|last=Sanger
|first=Larry
}}</ref> [https://www.heartland.org The Heartland Institute] pronounced Wikipedia to be "broken, biased, and corrupt".<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.heartland.org/topics/infotech-telecom/Wikipedia/index.html
|title=Wikipedia: The fake encyclopedia
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* [[Jake H. Waskett]], a British circumcision enthusiast, made his first edit to the circumcision article at Wikipedia on 18 October 2004.<ref name="circhistory2001" /> Waskett, who appears to be driven by [[Jake_H._Waskett/Editorial| emotional issues]], seems to have considered his sacred duty to be to promote male circumcision by editing the various related articles at Wikipedia. Waskett seems to have wormed himself into a position of power at Wikipedia.
** His pseudonym [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayjg Jayjg] (whose symbol is a blue jay) is currently charged with maintaining the pro-circumcision bias. His page lists an extensive list of his accomplishments and awards, indicating that he is a high muck-a-muck at Wikipedia.
: Male circumcision has a substantial list of harms, complications, disadvantages, and drawbacks, however Jake apparently wanted these to be minimized while the alleged advantages were emphasized. This put him into conflict with others who wanted the whole story to be told. As a result, there were a huge number of revisions to the articles associated with male circumcision until 18 June 2012,<ref name="circhistory2001" /> when Jake resigned from editing.
* Alex Brown appears to have taken over the duties of regulating the various circumcision related articles. He has not altered the bias found in the Wikipedia circumcision related articles.
When [[Ulf Dunkel]] added the [[Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy]] to the English and German Wikipedia, he also experienced a lot of headwinds from administrators who, however, did not aim at the topic of the article, but tried to discredit the author as an anti-Semite. The article still exists as a stub on the Wikipedia.<ref>{{URLwikipedia|World_Wide_Day_of_Genital_Autonomy|World Wide Day of Genital Autonomy|2021-08-02}}</ref>
==Biased source material==
The [[AAP_Circumcision_Task_Force_2012#2012_Circumcision_Policy_Statement| 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement]] of the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] and the accompanying "technical report" was created to promote the practice of non-therapeutic male circumcision and third-party payment to physicians who execute circumcisions. As one would expect of such a statement, it is highly slanted and biased in favor of medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic male circumcision. It has suffered unrelenting, scathing critical comment. The AAP chose not to re-affirm the Statement when it expired in 2017. The Wikipedia Circumcision article chooses to cite this highly defective biased source ''thirty times''.
The Wikipedia Circumcision article cites material from the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) several times. There are conflicts of interest and [[bias]] at the WHO because [[David R. Tomlinson]], the chief circumcision expert at the WHO, also manufactures and sells circumcision devices. The WHO cite cites methodologically and statistically flawed articles to promote male circumcision (and of course, the sale of devices).
[[Brian J. Morris]] is a prominent and well-known ardent Australian ardent promoter of male circumcision, producer of biased articles, and a member of the [[Gilgal Society]]. Morris has associates, such as [[John N. Krieger]] and others with a fetish for circumcision. He and his associates write highly biased articles for medical journals to promote male circumcision. No less than ''four '' of Morris' biased articles have been cited in the Wikipedia circumcision article.<ref>{{REFjournal
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|DOI=10.1007/s00345-011-0696-x
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While Wikipedia may profess to write from a neutral point of view (NPOV), the use of adamantly pro-circumcision editors, their selection of so many sources biased in favor of circumcision, and their omission of most of the [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| functions of the foreskin]] drags the neutral point over into a pro-circumcision biased position.
The Circumcision article has been amended more than 15,000 times<ref name="circhistory2001" /> so it is an unstable source of information. If Wikipedia truly hopes to have an unbiased article, then Wikipedia needs to start over with a blank page and writers who are non-circumcised[[intact]], because [[circumcision]] induces [[bias]] in men.<ref name="lebourdais1995">{{REFjournal
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|first=Eleanor
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}}</ref> <ref name="goldman2005">{{REFjournal
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|first=Ronald
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|author-link=Ronald Goldman
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|title=Circumcision policy: a psychosocial perspective
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|date=2005-11
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|pages=630-3.
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==Information for parents==The general public and parents in particular should be aware of these issues and seek information elsewhere.IntactiWiki maintains a list of sources for parents:* [[Internet parental circumcision information]]{{SEEALSO}}* [[Circumcision]]* [[United States of America]]{{LINKS}}* {{REFweb |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030520if_/http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/info/wikipedia.html |title=Wikipedia and Male Circumcision |trans-title= |language= |last= |first= |author-link= |publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]] |website= |date=2012-08 |accessdate=2021-08-01 |format= |quote=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)|Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] has no confidence in the circumcision related articles at Wikipedia and does not recommend Wikipedia as a primary source of information regarding male circumcision.}}* [https://imgur.com/a/wAFV7oO Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, until running afoul of just one administrator]{{SEEALSO}}* [[Google bias on circumcision]]
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