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You may also be looking for Wikipedia:Guidelines for controversial articles.
This is a list of previously controversial issues among Wikipedia editors.
A controversial issue is one where its related articles are constantly being re-edited in a circular manner, or is otherwise the focus of edit warring.
This page is conceived as a location for articles that regularly become biased and need to be fixed, or articles that were once the subject of an NPOV dispute and are likely to suffer future disputes. Other articles not yet classified as "controversial" have some edit conflict issues. The divisive nature of disputed subjects have triggered arguments, since opinions on a given issue differ as they are debated.
These subjects are responsible for a great deal of tension among Wikipedia editors, reflecting the debates of society as a whole. Perspectives on these subjects are particularly subject to time, place, and culture of the editor.
- Articles listed here may need more work to approach a neutral point of view than is usual. For articles that are currently unbalanced, see NPOV dispute instead.
- Articles on this list should be checked from time to time to monitor developments in the presentation of the issues. Use the "related changes" link to quickly review changes to these articles.
- Discussions about those controversies should be limited to the relevant Talk pages. For more information, see Wikipedia:Guidelines for controversial articles.
Major themes
Some of the biggest editing disputes at Wikipedia naturally mirror the intensity of the controversy in the outside world. The clash between what people in the U.S. call a culture war of sociopolitical mores "liberal" and "conservative", and globally on the moralistic nature of "right" and "wrong" or even sin or taboo, affects many of these disputes.
Categories of past controversial issues
Many of these articles could be classified into multiple categories.
Politics/ economics
- 2003 invasion of Iraq and related articles, dominated by advocates of one of the conflicting parties
- Abortion
- ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union
- Affirmative action
- African American
- American Hunters and Shooters Association
- History of Jews in the United States- historical review of American Jews.
- Anarchism
- Anarcho-capitalism
- Anti-Americanism
- Antisemitism
- Asian American
- Osama bin Laden
- Black supremacy
- British National Party
- Movement to impeach George W. Bush
- Capitalism
- Cherokee Americans - who have Cherokee ancestry.
- People's Republic of China - economy, military, human rights issues.
- Ward Churchill
- CIA leak scandal, aka Plame affair (controversies include naming of articles)
- CIA leak scandal timeline, aka Plame affair timeline (controversies include naming of articles)
- Communism
- Communist government
- Communist state
- Conservatism in the USA
- Copyright, Free software, viral license, Copyright infringement of software, DMCA, copyright term extension, Inducement/Child Exploitation
- crime in the USA
- Criticism of Wal-Mart
- Cuba
- Culture war in American politics
- Cyprus
- Cyprus dispute
- Demographics of Chile
- Domestic violence
- Economy of Japan
- European Union (EU)
- Fascism
- Federal Marriage Amendment
- Feminism
- Fox News
- Free trade
- Freedom fighter
- Isa Gambar
- gay rights, LGBT rights
- Genocide denial
- Global warming and climate change
- Gun politics
- Hamas
- Human Rights in the United States
- Hate crimes
- Hezbollah
- Holocaust
- Holodomor
- Homosexual agenda
- Human rights in Cuba
- Illegal drugs and drug abuse
- Illegal Immigration into the USA
- India- economy and politics
- Politics of Iran
- History of Israel
- Israel-Palestine conflict and all related issues.
- Italian American (anti-Italianism)
- Japan - history of being a world power.
- Jewish Americans as a lobbying interest group.
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Sexuality
Sports
Entertainment
Environment
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Philosophy
Psychiatry
Technology
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- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran.
- Syed Ahmed
- Muhammed Ali - formerly Cassius Clay, conversion to Islam and anti-Vietnam war comments.
- Idi Amin
- Criss Angel
- Yasir Arafat
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
- Gilad Atzmon
- Michelle Bachelet
- Brigitte Bardot
- Glenn Beck
- David Beckham
- Art Bell - radio program discussions on conspiracy theories.
- Tony Blair
- Robert Blake - 2002 homicide defendant case.
- Hans Blix
- Barry Bonds and the BALCO drug scandal (includes other major league baseball athletes José Canseco, Mark McGwire and Alex Rodriguez).
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Ruđer Bošković - ethnicity.
- Lorena Bobbitt - In 1994, mutilated her husband's penis in self-defense from marital rape.
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Anita Bryant
- Pat Buchanan
- George W. Bush and his father George H.W. Bush
- Jeb Bush
- Richard Butler - founder of the Aryan Nations group.
- George Carlin
- Jimmy Carter
- Fidel Castro and brother Raul Castro.
- Cesar Chavez
- Hugo Chávez
- Dave Chappelle - satirist/comedian
- Dick Cheney
- Cher and her ex-husband Sonny Bono and his widow Mary Bono Mack in politics.
- Jacques Chirac
- Margaret Cho
- Seung-Hui Cho - Virginia Tech University gunman killed himself & 35 others in 2007 massacre.
- Ward Churchill
- Bill Clinton and wife Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Kurt Cobain - 1994 suicide (or murder) controversy.
- Christopher Columbus
- Sean "Puffy" Combs - aka "Puff Daddy"
- Nicolaus Copernicus - (Copernicus' nationality)
- Stephen Colbert
- Ann Coulter
- Tom Cruise - recent actions and Scientology controversy.
- Salvador Dalí
- Jeffrey Dahmer
- Angela Davis - former black panther member in 1973 federal homicide case.
- Andrew Dice Clay - satirist/comedian.
- The Dixie Chicks - politically charged anti-Bush comments in 2003.
- Walt Disney - alleged antisemitism & alcoholism.
- Phil Donahue
- David Duke
- Andrea Dworkin
- Eminem real name Marshall Mathers, rapper.
- Pablo Escobar
- Jerry Falwell
- Melissa Farley
- Gerald Ford - 1975 Watergate pardons.
- Henry Ford
- Michael J. Fox and late Christopher Reeve - stem cell research advocates.
- Al Franken
- William Gaillard
- Janeane Garofalo
- Charles de Gaulle
- Mel Gibson- for verbal anti-Semitic, homophobic comments in DUI arrest.
- Kathie Lee Gifford - 1995 children's sweatshop scandal involved her clothing brand, her ex-husband Frank Gifford's affairs and her political/religious views spoofed in comedy.
- Newt Gingrich
- Girls Aloud - numerous controversies.
- Wayne Gretzky and wife Janet Jones in sports gambling scandal.
- Josef Goebbels
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Al Gore
- Rudy Giuliani
- Woody Guthrie
- Ferenc Gyurcsány
- Ted Haggard
- Tarja Halonen
- Sean Hannity
- Phil Hendrie - radio comedian.
- Patty Hearst - 1974 kidnapping/conversion by the Symbionese Liberation Army, bank robbery suspect with the group and arrested, convicted and released from prison.
- Paris Hilton
- Anita Hill in the 1991 Clarence Thomas sexual harrassment case.
- Heinrich Himmler
- Emperor Hirohito- involvement in WWII Imperial Japan policy.
- Adolf Hitler
- Jimmy Hoffa - 1975 kidnapping/disappearance.
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Katie Hopkins
- Rock Hudson
- Saddam Hussein
- John Howard
- L. Ron Hubbard
- Yusuf Islam (Catt Stevens)
- Andrew Jackson
- George Jackson.
- Jesse Jackson
- Michael Jackson - People v. Jackson case in 2005, and several other controversies.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Elton John
- Magic Johnson - HIV diagnosis.
- Michael Jordan
- Jenny Jones
- John F. Kennedy, with brothers Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - widow of John F. Kennedy, remarried to Greek billionaire.
- Andy Kaufman
- Khomeini
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Kid Rock
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Rodney King
- Philip J. Klass
- Shosei Koda
- Junichiro Koizumi
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