Reply #226: My pleasure. Now we'll see if the links survive. [View All]

[Jim Lane]

The DU and FR articles on Wikipedia attract so much left-versus-right edit warring that they're both among the few articles that are officially on "article probation", a heightened level of scrutiny by the community.

Down the road, when you yourself are someone's thesis advisor and your advisee is selecting a topic, you could continue your internet focus by suggesting "Political Edit Warring on Wikipedia". There's quite a rich vein to be mined there. For the academic, the advantage is that, like posting history on DU and FR, it's almost all available online, so you can work with the raw data.