If I annoyed you by nominating your page for deletion or some other edit I did, please reach out to me on my talk page. I have no ill intentions, and I could've made a mistake.

Perhaps the most important things about Wikipedia (and any published source for that matter) are being factual and neutral. Wikipedia obviously has a reputation as not always being factual, but I would argue that the bias problem is larger.

Wikipedians have plenty of different viewpoints, as the project is a global effort. But Wikipedia:Opinions are like arseholes - you can be proud of it, we all have one, but flashing it to others probably isn't the best idea. Though because we're human, we don't always know when we're introducing bias into work - something could seem fair to us but not to others, or we could not include something that we didn't think of that should be included.

This is especially important on those touchy topics. You know what I mean - gender, religion, politics, conflicts/wars. I'm not taking a side here, but jesus, if you want a headache, go to the talk page of the "Gaza genocide" article. More people take Wikipedia as a news source as one may think, despite their knowledge that anyone can edit it. This is especially so because search engines like Google and Bing pull data from articles and provide summaries to provide to their end user, like in the sidebar in Google. Artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT and Gemini get trained on data dumps of Wikipedia, which then regurgitate the information. Even if you, the reader, take the content written here with a grain of salt, not everyone does - all it takes is one respected journalist or academic to republish it and then it will propagate from there.

It's easy to roll your eyes at a page and criticize it for being biased or incorrect, but you have to be the one to change it. With the same level of effort to angrily tweet about the issue, you can click edit and change it, which takes less time and has an actual lasting impact. And don't be a jerk while you're at it - all it does it push people away and alienate you from everybody else. This is one of the internet's most influential projects and one of the greatest achievements of our age; don't let it go.