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This is a list of Wikipedia articles deemed controversial because they are constantly re-edited in a circular manner, or are otherwise the focus of
edit warring
or
article sanctions
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. The divisive nature of disputed subjects has triggered arguments, since opinions on a given issue differ. 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 affected by the time, place, and culture of the editor.
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neutral point of view
. For articles that are
currently
unbalanced, see
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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.
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Categories of past controversial issues
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Many of these articles could be classified into multiple categories.
Politics and economics
edit
2003 invasion of Iraq
Abortion
Affirmative action
African National Congress
Alberta separatism
American Civil Liberties Union
American Hunters and Shooters Association
History of the Jews in the United States
– historical review of
American Jews
Anarchism
Anarcho-capitalism
Anti-Americanism
Anti-clericalism
Anti-Irish racism
Antisemitism
Asian American
Atheism
Austrian School
Bashar al-Assad
and the
Syrian civil war
Bidoon (social class)
BJP IT Cell
Black Lives Matter
Black supremacy
Boricua Popular Army
– also known as
Los Macheteros
Brexit
British National Party
Capitalism
Capital punishment
Catalonia
- Separatist activity.
CBC News
Centrelink
Cherokee
Americans – who have Cherokee ancestry.
China
– independence movements in
Xinjiang
and
Tibet
as well as its
human rights
Chinese spies
Christian right
– also known as the
religious right
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 Party of China
Communist government
Communist state
CNN
Conservatism in the United States
Free software
viral license
Copyright infringement of software
DMCA
copyright term extension
Inducement/Child Exploitation
Corsica
– separatism activity.
Crime in the United States
Criticism of Walmart
Cuba
Culture war
in American politics
Cyprus
Cyprus dispute
Deaf culture in the United States
– rising self-identification among the hearing impaired as an "
ethnic group
".
Democratic Party (United States)
Demographics of Europe
Demographics of the United States
Domestic violence
Detroit
Economy of Japan
Efforts to impeach George W. Bush
European Union
(EU)
Fascism
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC)
Federal Marriage Amendment
Feminism
Fox News
Fractional reserve banking
Free trade
Freedom fighter
Gay rights
LGBT rights
Genocide denial
Gentrification
Godi media
Gun control
Gun politics
Gun show loophole
Hamas
Harry's Place
Hate crimes
Health care reform in the United States
Health Services Union expenses affair
Hezbollah
Hispanics
or
Latinos
Hail Hitler
Adolf Hitler
– in regards to his biography, political career and personal issues (i.e. possible homosexuality or mental illness).
Holodomor
Hopi–Navajo land disputes
Human overpopulation
Immigration
Immigration reform
Immigration reform in the United States
Immigration reform in the United Kingdom
Insurance
Ireland
and
Irish people
– alleged anti-British sentiment and alleged British bias.
Israel
History of Israel
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
and all related issues.
Italian American
anti-Italianism
Japan
– history of being a world power.
Jewish Americans
as a lobbying interest group.
Kashmir
Killing of Harambe
Korean War
Kosovo
Louisiana
politics, as well alleged corruption (also the adage of "
Chicago
-way or
New Jersey
-style politics").
Lebanon
– ethnic/religious conflicts.
Liancourt rocks
– naming and ownership.
Liberalism in the United States
Libertarianism
Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia
Macedonian Slavs
Moldavia
Moldovans
Masculism
Men's Rights
Mexico
– economic and political systems.
Morality
and
ethics
Multiculturalism
Muslim Brotherhood
NATO
(North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
National Democratic Party of Germany
(NPD) – (rel.
bombing of Dresden
Native American name controversy
National-anarchism
National Rifle Association
(NRA)
Nazi Germany
Nazi firearms regulation (for instance, as presented in the
book
Gun Control in the Third Reich
Neoconservatism
Neoliberalism
New World Order (conspiracy theory)
North Korea
and its
nuclear program
Politics of North Korea
Northern Ireland
Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali
Occupy Wall Street
and
Occupy movement
Osama bin Laden
and
Al-Qaeda
Open borders
Pakkoruotsi
Palestine
Palestine Liberation Organization
Park51
– a proposed (as of September 2010) Islamic community center and mosque to be built near the
World Trade Center site
Patriotism
in the USA
PEGIDA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Pioneer Fund
– US racial research group.
Polish people
Anti-Polish sentiment
Political correctness
Political parties
and
partisan
politics.
Post-racial America
Poverty
in USA and worldwide
Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act
Public education
in the USA
Puerto Ricans in the United States
Quebec
Canada
Race relations
in the USA
Racial quota
Race
ethnicity
issues in many countries, such as in
Demographics of Chile
Racism
– definition of
Radical right (United States)
Republican Party (United States)
Right-wing populism
Recession
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Salvador Allende
Same-sex marriage
Saskatchewan Party
Saudi Arabia
– use of
Sharia
law and human rights record.
Laura Schlessinger
School violence
Seamus incident
Republika Srpska
Republic of Serbian Krajina
Sedition
Separatism
September 11 attacks
also known as 9/11.
Sexual harassment
Ariel Sharon
Silesia
Social Credit System
Social Issues
Socialism
Southeastern United States
or
Southern United States
– regional/nationalistic feeling, including
Texas
secessionism.
Southern Poverty Law Center
Spain
– autonomous movements in each province of the country.
Sudan
South Sudan
and
Darfur
).
Banking
in
Switzerland
— controversy over use of accounts in
Swiss banks
Synarchism
Syrian Social Nationalist Party
Tea Party movement
and
Tea Party protests
Taiwan
Taliban
Terrorism
Terrorist groups
Tibet
Tobin tax
Torture
(see also
Medical torture
Universal health care
proposals in the United States
United Nations
(UN)
USA PATRIOT Act
– also known as The
Patriot Act
The United States
's
War on Terror
Valencian people
Valencianism
) vs.
Catalan people
Catalan nationalism
) over whether to classify the
Valencian language
a "dialect" of
Catalan language
Vector Marketing
— controversy over hiring practices and business model
War on Drugs
Wells Fargo
– controversy over fake accounts scandal.
Wells Fargo account fraud scandal
Western civilization
White Americans
– non-racist white identity.
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
— on talk page there are claims of non-neutrality.
Wiretapping
Paul Wolfowitz
Womyn
– alternative spelling of
women
Xinjiang
Sinkiang
).
Xinjiang re-education camps
Yugoslavia
– breakup of the country.
Zaire
, now the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Zimbabwe
History
edit
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
1953 Iranian coup d'état
1963 South Vietnamese coup
– theories abound on the US CIA involvement.
1964 Alaska earthquake
1973 coup in Chile
1992 Los Angeles riots
9/11 or
September 11 terrorist attacks
American Airlines Flight 77
American Revolution
Apartheid
Apollo Moon landing hoax accusations
Armenian Genocide
Aryan invasion theory
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
Berlin Wall
Biafra
Black Power
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
– 1992–1995 war.
Bromberg Bloody Sunday
Cambodian genocide
Centre Party Germany
Chicano nationalism
– also see
Mexican American
Coandă-1910
Cold War
era – i.e.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Communism
– histories of communist regimes.
Confederate States of America
Jim Crow laws
or racial
segregation
Constitutional law
Intense holy wars,
Crusades
Cyprus dispute
D-Day
1944 allied invasion of
France
East Germany
(the
German Democratic Republic
1949–1990).
Issues pertaining to
politics of Egypt
from 2013 onward.
Ethnicity
Falkland Islands
French Revolution
The Great Purge
Genocide
Great Depression
Green Revolution
Heimatvertriebene
Iran hostage crisis
Ireland
– history, including 1850s
Irish Potato Famine
Irredentism
in
Italy
China
Mexico
and elsewhere.
January 6 United States Capitol attack
Japanese American internment
during World War II.
Jesus Christ
– historical/biographical studies (the Bible and other sources).
Jews
in
Ukraine
and
Poland
, "Ukrainian and Polish
antisemitism
".
Kennedy assassinations
of 1963 and 1968.
Korean War
Kosovo War
Kurdish genocide
Kuril Islands
Libyan civil war
Louisiana Purchase
of 1803
Majestic 12
Maoism
Marijuana
illegalization of the drug
Mexican–American War
(see also
History of Mexican Americans
).
Native Americans in the United States
Nazism
Nordic race
theories of global domination (see also
Aryan race
and
white race
Okinawa
– U.S. rule 1945–1972.
Operation Wetback
– mass deportation program of Mexicans (either illegal aliens, naturalized citizens and Mexican-Americans) from the US in the 1950s.
Other Losses
Panama Canal
– US rule in
Canal Zone
1903–1979.
Philippines
under US rule 1898–1946.
Piprahwa
Numerous episodes of
Poland–Russia relations
Numerous episodes of
Poland–Ukraine relations
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
Prohibition
in the US 1919–1933.
Prussia
Puerto Rico
's
relationship with the US
since the
Spanish-American War
in 1898
Quebec sovereignty movement
Radicalism
Rape during the occupation of Germany
– mostly by the Red Army
Roswell UFO incident
Numerous episodes of
Russia–Ukraine relations
Sanhedrin
Scientology
Silesia
Slavery
Soviet republics
Soviet Russia
Soviet Union
or the USSR.
Soviet war crimes
Spanish–American War
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Inquisition
Stem cell research
Texas Revolution
of 1836, known by the
battle of the Alamo
The Rape of Nanking (book)
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
Trail of Tears
TWA Flight 800
U.S. Civil War
U.S.
Latinos
or
Hispanics
U.S.
War of 1812
United States presidential election, 2000
United States presidential election, 2016
– especially allegations of Russian involvement.
Unidentified flying objects
or
UFOs
Ustaše
Vietnam War
Warsaw Pact
Watergate scandal
White supremacy
Women's rights
and
feminism
Causes and effects of
World War I
Causes and effects of
World War II
Religion
edit
2012
2012 phenomenon
, and the
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
Adventism
Agnosticism
American Family Association
Answers in Genesis
(AiG)
Anti-clericalism
Anti-Muslim violence in India
Anti-semitism
Apollo Quiboloy
Atheism
Baptist
churches – differences among them, including fundamentalist and independent ones.
Biblical literalism
Book of Enoch
Born-Again
Buddhism
Catholicism
Christian Coalition
Christian right
– also known as the
religious right
Christian Science
Christianity
Christophobia
Conservative Judaism
and
Criticism of Conservative Judaism
Creationism
Cult
Deism
Dhimmi
Divorce
– religious opposition to
Dorje Shugden
Dorje Shugden controversy
Druze
Eastern Orthodoxy
Eckankar
Evangelical
Falun Gong
Feminism
and religion.
Fundamentalism
Gay Marriage
– opposition of
Gnosticism and the New Testament
God
Gospel for Asia
(more critical than descriptive)
Guru
(structure and criticism)
Hare Krishna
Hate group
(new religious movements)
Historicity of Jesus
Homosexuality
and religion.
Iglesia ni Cristo
Imperium (Warhammer 40,000)
Islamophobia
Islam
Jainism
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jesus Freaks
Judas Iscariot
Kabbala
Kashrut
and
Kosher
Kokuchūkai
Ku Klux Klan
Last Supper
of Jesus
Liberalism
Liturgy
Lutheranism
Makkah
Mecca
('Offensive' spelling).
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Mennonites
– most notably the old order
Amish
Modernism
Mormonism
– to a certain extent (subset of the
Latter Day Saint movement
).
Neocatechumenal Way
New Age
New Kadampa Tradition
Nondenominational
churches.
Ole Nydahl
and
Diamond Way Buddhism
Opus Dei
Pacifism
Paganism
– various sects
Paul and Gnosticism
Pentecostalism
Politics
and religion.
Prem Rawat
and
Divine Light Mission
Project Chanology
Protestant Reformation
Qu'ran
Reincarnation research
U.S.
Republican Party
connection with the
religious right
Religion and sexuality
and various related topics.
Role of women in religion
Religious feminism
, and related topics
Separation of church and state
Satanism
Sathya Sai Baba
– enduring dispute about the amount of space devoted to describing the views of proponents and critics as published on their homepages
Scientology
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Sharia
Sin
Soka Gakkai
Sufism
Syncretism
Taboo
Temple Mount
and related topics
United Submitters International
Qur'an alone
Rashad Khalifa
– peacock words, critical sources removed, lack of RS, failure to describe size and importance and relation to older Islamic groups, linkfarming
Universal Life Church
Universalism
Westboro Baptist Church
Science, biology, and health
edit
Abortion
ADD/ADHD
AIDS
AIDS denialism
Alcoholism
Allergy
– causes of
Allopathic medicine
Alzheimer's disease
Alternative medicine
and closely related issues
Anencephaly
Answers in Genesis
(AiG)
Anthropology
Assisted suicide
Aspartame
Aspartame controversy
Asperger's syndrome
and
Autism
Astrology
as a "science"
Bates method
Bioethics
Biology and sexual orientation
Birth defect
Black hole information paradox
Blood transfusions
Breast cancer
Cancer
cures
Caesarean section
Chakra
Chiropractic
Chromosome
Circumcision
Cloning
Cochlear implant
Cold fusion
Conjoined twins
COVID-19 pandemic
Cryonics
Creation science
Depleted uranium
Depression
Disability
Drugs
Dyslexia
Ebola
virus
Albert Einstein
Electrical sensitivity
Elitism
Eugenics
Euthanasia
Evolution
Extraterrestrial Life
Family planning
Female genital mutilation
Modern flat Earth beliefs
Genetic engineering
Genetically modified foods
(or GM food(s))
Gender
differences
Glyphosate
Heredity
Heritability of IQ
High Fructose Corn Syrup
HIV
– virus that causes
AIDS
HMO
– US health care coverage
Hodgkin's Disease
Homeopathy
Human cloning
Human evolution
Human
longevity
Huntington's disease
Influenza
strains like the H5N1 virus or
bird flu
Institute for Creation Research
Intelligent design
IQ and the Wealth of Nations
Jewish people
as a "race"
Kombucha
Tea
Lactose intolerance
as a genetic inherited trait
Life extension
Lupus
Master race
Medical torture
Menopause
Mental disorder
Mental retardation
Michio Kaku
Mind control
MS
and treatments for it e.g.
CCSVI
or
[1]
Mucoid plaque
Nutrition
Obesity
Organ donor
and
transplants
Ovarian cancer
Overpopulation
Paternity testing
Pharmaceutical industry
in the USA
Pluto
demoted as a planet
Poppers
(the use of
alkyl nitrites
as a drug)
Pregnancy
Premature birth
Prenatal care
Psychiatry
Race
and science
Race and intelligence
Recapitulation theory
Rh blood group system
(origins of RH negative
Blood type
Romani people
as a race
Schizophrenia
Self-harm
Sex differences in intelligence
Sex differences in psychology
Sexually transmitted diseases
Smoking
and
tobacco
Smoking bans
Speciesism
Sperm donor
and
Egg donor
Stem cell research
String theory
testability
, validity, and viability
Surrogate mother
– child custody battles
Tay–Sachs disease
Nikola Tesla
Test-tube babies
Therapeutic touch
Thiomersal
Transgender
Transsexual
, and
BIID
persons
Twin paradox
Universe
– such as the
Big Bang
theory
Warburg hypothesis
Vaccination
Veganism
and
Vegetarianism
Vertebral subluxation
Sex, sexuality, and gender identity
edit
69ing
Abortion
Adultery
("consensual sex outside marriage")
Age of consent
AIDS
AIDS denialism
Anal sex
Anti-LGBT
Asian fetish
(also
Racial fetishism
of other races/ethnicities).
Attraction to disability
(a.k.a.
Abasiophilia
).
Autoerotic Asphyxiation
Autogynephilia
BDSM
Bestiality
Biphobia
Bisexuality
Buggery
Buggery Act 1533
Child grooming
– where perpetrators gain the trust of victims with the intent of sexually abusing them.
Child pornography
Child sexuality
Chlamydia
Circumcision
Conversion therapy
(also called "reparative therapy")
Drawn pornography depicting minors
Lolicon
Shotacon
Ejaculation
Fetishism
Fingering
and
fisting
Fornication
G-Spot
Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands
Gay rights
Genetic sexual attraction
Genital modification and mutilation
Gerontophilia
Golden shower
Hebephilia
Hentai
("anime porn")
Heterophobia
Heterosexism
Homophobia
Homosexuality
Incest
Internet pornography
Intersex rights
Lesbianism
Lesbophobia
LGBT rights
Masturbation
Necrophilia
North American Man/Boy Love Association
Oral sex
Orgasm
Paraphilia
Pederasty
Paedophilia
Polyamory
Polygamy
Pornhub
Pornography
Pregnancy fetishism
Prostitution
Rape
Sadomasochism
Safe Schools Coalition Australia
Safe sex
Semen
Sex offender
Sexual abuse
Sexual acts
Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln
Sexuality of Adolf Hitler
Sexually transmitted diseases
Stalking
Suicide among LGBT youth
Surrogacy
Swinging (sexual practice)
Transgender rights
Transphobia
Transsexuality
Women
(see Women and Sexuality)
X18+ rating
Xenogender
Zoophilia
Entertainment
edit
Bullfighting
Bumfights
Disc jockeys
Duke Nukem Forever
and other
development hell
games
Entertainment Software Rating Board
Gambling
Gamergate controversy
and related articles
Girls Gone Wild
Hip hop culture
hip hop music
, and
rapping
rap music
JBL
Speakers - Concerns over public transport use
List of best-selling albums
MPAA film rating system
Playboy
magazine
Pop punk
Pornographic magazines
Hustler
and
Penthouse
Psytrance
SeaWorld
Smooth jazz
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Strip club
(stripping/strippers)
Video game controversies
Westfield
World Star Hip Hop
Environment
edit
2005
Hurricane Katrina
in
New Orleans
Naming of
Adlay
(plant) in Australia
Chernobyl
– nuclear plant accident, April 25, 1986
Deepwater Horizon
– oil spill, April 20, 2010
Deforestation
vs
Logging
Dust Bowl
vs
intensive farming
Ecofascism
Eco-terrorism
Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing
Environmental vegetarianism
Fossil fuels
vs
air pollution
and
greenhouse gases
Natural gas
vs
Natural_gas#Environmental_effects
Coal
vs
Coal mining
Petrol
vs
oil spills
oil shale industry
Fukushima-Daiichi
– nuclear plant accident after, caused by
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Global warming
and
Global cooling
theories
Hydraulic fracturing
– industry vs environmental perspectives
Hydraulic fracturing by country
Hydraulic fracturing in the United States
Hydrogen Bomb
and
Atomic Bomb
testing effects
An Inconvenient Truth
– 2006 documentary movie on humanity's involvement in
climate change
Mercury poisoning
and cause of
Minamata disease
in a Japanese fishing village during the 1960s.
Mining
and
Deep sea mining
Nuclear power
vs
Wind farms
(and other largescale power generation)
Oil drilling
and
ANWR
petroleum reserves in
Alaska
's
North Slope
Overpopulation
(see global human
Population explosion
Ozone depletion
leading to
Ozone hole
Pollution
Recycling
Sea level rise
Three Gorges Dam
and other (
Hydroelectric
) dams, vs
Water shortages
and
droughts
floods
Toxic waste
and its disposal at
Love Canal
Volkswagen emissions scandal
Weather modification
Law and order
edit
Crime in America
Double jeopardy
Illegal drugs
Judicial system
Jury duty
Law enforcement
Legal status of
Minors
and
Juveniles
(see
Teenagers
Public education
(also mandatory school attendance laws)
Prisons
Selective Service
and
Military draft
Tax
(see also the U.S.
Internal Revenue Service
Languages
edit
Afrikaans
spoken by
Afrikaners
of
South Africa
Ancient Macedonian language
Aramaic
, one language or group of languages
Balto-Slavic languages
Basque language
– unrelated to any Indo-European or any other language in the world
Bilingualism in Canada
Celtic Revival
– the restoration of
Celtic languages
in Ireland, Scotland, Wales,
Cornwall, England
, and
Brittany
, France
Chinese language
policies
Creole languages
Dené–Caucasian languages
Ebonics
Filipino
and
Tagalog
, Philippine languages
French language in Canada
Graeco-Armenian
Hate crimes
and
discrimination
towards people not fluent in a region's primary language
Indo-European
(languages and the "Aryan" race theory)
Japanese language
and
Korean language
, theorized similarities and self-isolations from any other language
Ladino
Language revival
Linguistics
Macedonian language
Norwegian language
Occitan language
Occitania
and
vergonha
linguicide
in France)
Pidgin English
Pig Latin
- Use by
Eshays
Quebec
(French as the official language of the province over English)
Riksmål
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Sami language
– spoken by the
Sami people
indigenous to Scandinavia.
Spanish in the United States
Turanism
of
Turkic languages
Welsh language
Yiddish language
Philosophy
edit
Meaning of life
Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato
Scientific method
Socrates
Truth
Psychiatry
edit
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Phil McGraw
Thomas Szasz
Technology
edit
Artificial intelligence
BitTorrent
BitTorrent (protocol)
Blu-ray Disc
ChatGPT
Criticism of Microsoft
Criticism of Windows Vista
Criticism of Apple Inc.
Criticism of Google
Cryptocurrency
Console wars
Cyberstalking
Digital rights management
esp re opening – see talk and archive
Electric car
Electronic voting
Factory farming
File sharing
Ford Pinto
GNU/Linux naming controversy
– discussed extensively at
Talk:Linux
Han unification
HD DVD
Holography
Indent style
Myspace
– online privacy and security issues
Napster
Net neutrality
NFT
Norton AntiVirus
Nuclear power
Object-oriented programming
P2P
Removal of Internet Explorer
Smart meter
– concerns about privacy and health effects
Solar power
Standardization of Office Open XML
The Pirate Bay
Unmanned combat air vehicle
– use of unmanned drones for warfare
Windows Vista
Media and culture
edit
2b2t
4chan
9gag
and
Reddit
A Current Affair
Anime
Beavis and Butt-head
Black Entertainment Television
Black Metal
Borat
Bumbags
Cancel culture
CCTV
(Closed-circuit television/public surveillance)
Cable News
CNN
MSNBC
and
Fox News Channel
, as well the
BBC
RT
and
Al Jazeera
Censorship
laws
Chinese television
(CCTV news)
Da Vinci Code
Digimon
– clashes among fans and critics over this and
Pokémon
Digital television
conversion in US
Diversity
on prime-time TV
Disco
music
Drawn Together
Emo
Eshays
European culture
Family Guy
Federal Communications Commission
or the US FCC
Furry subculture
Game of Thrones
Gamergate controversy
or GamerGate
Gatorade
- Concerns over bottles used as a
bong
Gay culture
Google
(privacy issues)
Goth subculture
Harry Potter
Hard rock
and
heavy metal
music, esp. the inclusion of
misogynistic
and
Satanic
lyrics in some songs
Hippies
Ima Korean
The Innocence of Muslims
Internet forum
/message boards, esp, the anonymous nature of these boards leading to
trolling
cyberbullying
and
hate speech
KFC
's Zinger Boxes
MADtv
The Marshall Mathers LP
Media bias
Me Too movement
Murphy Brown
– sitcom featuring a single mother
Music Television
(MTV)
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Netiquette
Nike TNs
- Relation to
Eshays
shoe fetishists
and safety, fire and explosive concerns
Nintendo Switch 2
- pricing, user agreement stating that the console can be bricked by Nintendo
PAW Patrol
Pentagon Papers
of
The New York Times
1971
PewDiePie videos
Political correctness
Punk rock
music
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and
hip-hop
music
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and
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Rucka Rucka Ali
music
Sailor Moon
LGBT
and adult themes.
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Saturday Night Live
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The Simpsons
Sirius XM Radio
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SpongeBob Squarepants
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(see
South Park controversies
Star Trek
Star Wars
anthology
Steven Universe
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Telemundo
and
Univision
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Talk radio
– limits on
free speech
The Little Mermaid (2023 film)
Time Warner
and
Viacom
as multi-corporate monopolies.
Trinity Broadcasting Network
and
televangelists
The Twilight Saga
as a social trend.
US culture (
Americana
) – the concepts of "American culture"
Virgin Records
The Walt Disney Company
Wikipedia
Women
-oriented television (
Lifetime
Oxygen
and
WE
).
WeChat
World Wide Web
or the
internet
(content issues).
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Who Is America?
People
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
– President of Iran 2005–2013.
Syed Ahmed
Muhammad Ali
– conversion to Islam and anti-Vietnam war comments.
Kirstie Alley
Idi Amin
– Ugandan dictator.
Criss Angel
Yasser Arafat
Jodi Arias
Joe Arpaio
– Sheriff of
Maricopa County, Arizona
Bashar al-Assad
– President of Syria 2000–2024.
Julian Assange
Hans Asperger
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Gilad Atzmon
Michelle Bachelet
Michele Bachmann
Brigitte Bardot
Roseanne Barr
(Arnold)
Glenn Beck
David Beckham
Beyonce
Joy Behar
Silvio Berlusconi
Art Bell
– radio program discussions on
conspiracy theories
Bruno Bettelheim
Joe Biden
– U.S. president
Tony Blair
Robert Blake
– 2002 homicide defendant case.
Hans Blix
Christoph Blocher
– prominent
Swiss
politician, former
Federal Councillor
Barry Bonds
and the
BALCO
drug
scandal (includes other
Major League Baseball
athletes
Jose 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 alleged
marital rape
Russell Brand
- comedian charged with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault dating back to 1999.
Leonid Brezhnev
Chris Brown
– accused of domestic violence/abuse against girlfriend
Rihanna
Jerry Brown
– California governor.
Anita Bryant
Amit Malviya
– Head of
BJP IT Cell
Kobe Bryant
Pat Buchanan
Ted Bundy
George W. Bush
and his father
George H. W. Bush
, U.S. Presidents.
Jeb Bush
Richard Butler
– founder of the
Aryan Nations
group.
Caligula
– Roman emperor.
George Carlin
Jimmy Carter
– U.S. president and peace negotiator.
Fidel Castro
and brother
Raúl Castro
, leaders of Cuba.
Cesar Chavez
Hugo Chávez
Dave Chappelle
– satirist and comedian.
Dick Cheney
, U.S. vice president and CEO of
Halliburton
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 armed man killed himself and 32 others in 2007 massacre.
Noam Chomsky
Chris Christie
– governor of the state of New Jersey.
Ward Churchill
– Colorado State professor known for comments about 9-11 survivors, and involved in radical left and American Indian political movements.
Bill Clinton
– U.S. President
Hillary Rodham Clinton
– U.S. Secretary of State
Kurt Cobain
– 1994 suicide (or murder) controversy.
Sacha Baron Cohen
– for his controversial live-action characters
Ali G
Borat Sagdiyev
and
Brüno
Christopher Columbus
Sean Combs
– aka "Puff Daddy".
Nicolaus Copernicus
– (Copernicus' nationality either Polish or German).
Stephen Colbert
The Completionist
allegations
of
charity fraud
Jon Corzine
– governor of the state of
New Jersey
Ann Coulter
Tom Cruise
– open advocate of the
Church of Scientology
Miley Cyrus
and her performance at the VMAs in 2013
Salvador Dalí
Jeffrey Dahmer
Angela Davis
– former Black Panther member in 1973 federal homicide case.
Richard Dawkins
Ellen DeGeneres
Paula Deen
– allegations of spoken racial slurs.
Hassan Diab
– alleged role in the
1980 Paris synagogue bombing
Andrew Dice Clay
– satirist and comedian known for vulgar performances in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Dixie Chicks
– politically charged anti-Bush comments in 2003.
Walt Disney
– alleged antisemitism and alcoholism.
Phil Donahue
Jim Bob Duggar
David Duke
Andrea Dworkin
John Edwards
Marc Emery
Eminem
– real name Marshall Mathers, rapper
PewDiePie
— real name Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, YouTube gamer
Jeffrey Epstein
Pablo Escobar
Jerry Falwell
Nigel Farage
Melissa Farley
Carly Fiorina
Gerald Ford
– 1975
Watergate
pardons; U.S. President
George Floyd
Henry Ford
Michael J. Fox
and late
Christopher Reeve
– stem cell research advocates.
Al Franken
Kenny G
– dispute over genre.
Muammar Gaddafi
, Libyan leader
William Gaillard
Galileo
Janeane Garofalo
Charles de Gaulle
Ricky Gervais
– British comedian and actor
Mel Gibson
– for verbal
anti-Semitic
and
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 and religious views spoofed in
comedy
Newt Gingrich
– U.S. Speaker of the House (1995–99)
Girls Aloud
– numerous controversies
Rudy Giuliani
– Mayor of New York City and U.S. presidential candidate.
Nancy Grace
Wayne Gretzky
and wife
Janet Jones
in sports
gambling
scandal.
Joseph Goebbels
Whoopi Goldberg
– political comments as co-host on the show
The View
Barry Goldwater
Mikhail Gorbachev
Al Gore
, U.S. Vice President
Temple Grandin
– Livestock handling architect diagonsed with
autism
involved in the redesign of the cattle/livestock industry and leading figure of the Autism community
Alan Greenspan
Woody Guthrie
– His song lyrics endorsed leftism/socialism and portrayed farm workers as victims of the Great Depression.
Guns N' Roses
rock band –
Axl Rose
Ferenc Gyurcsány
Ted Haggard
Tarja Halonen
Ken Ham
Young Earth creationist
and the president of
Answers in Genesis
(AiG).
Sean Hannity
Jesse Helms
– U.S. Senator.
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.
Hideki Tojo
– leader of WWII Imperial
Japan
, executed by International Court tribunal for war crimes and crimes against humanity in 1948
Kamala Harris
Paris Hilton
Anita Hill
in the 1991
Clarence Thomas
sexual harassment case
Heinrich Himmler
Emperor Hirohito
– involvement in WWII Imperial Japan policy
Christopher Hitchens
Adolf Hitler
, German
Führer
and responsible for the
Holocaust
to exterminate nearly all of European Jews and other victims (i.e.
Roma people
Slavs
, homosexuals and communists), remains an infamous emotionally charged figure when it comes to associated issues of
racism
and
antisemitism
Erich Honecker
– Communist leader of the last years of
East Germany
(1971–89)
Jimmy Hoffa
– 1975
kidnapping
/disappearance
J. Edgar Hoover
Katie Hopkins
John Howard
L. Ron Hubbard
Mike Huckabee
Rock Hudson
Saddam Hussein
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Yusuf Islam
(Cat Stevens)
Andrew Jackson
– U.S. president and designer of federal government policy on
American Indians
and the
Trail of Tears
George Jackson
Jesse Jackson
Michael Jackson
People v. Jackson
case in 2005, and several other controversies
Jay-Z
Thomas Jefferson
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Sheila Jeffreys
Caitlyn Jenner
– U.S. Olympian who came out as transgender
Elton John
Magic Johnson
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Angelina Jolie
and former husband
Brad Pitt
Alex Jones
Jenny Jones
due to the
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Michael Jordan
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and
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Rodney King
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Philip J. Klass
Polly Klaas
child abduction case in 1993
Shosei Koda
Junichiro Koizumi
– Japanese leader
Chris Kyle
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Navy SEAL
and most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
Lady Gaga
k.d. lang
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Ricki Lake
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Carlos Latuff
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Norman Lear
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Lil B
Trent Lott
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Madonna
John Major
Nelson Mandela
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Karl Marx
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Jenny McCarthy
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Steve McNair
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Scott Peterson
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Condoleezza Rice
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Michael Richards
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Bobby Sands
Nicolas Sarkozy
Linda Sarsour
Michael Savage
Terri Schiavo case
Laura Schlessinger
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Gerhard Schröder
Arnold Schwarzenegger
as
California
state governor, rather than as actor.
Teofilo Vargas Sein
Selena
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William Shakespeare
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authorship question
."
Tupac Shakur
and his shooting death in 1996.
Al Sharpton
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Charlie Sheen
Matthew Shepard
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Sherlock Holmes
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Anna Nicole Smith
Joseph Smith
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in the 1820s.
Edward Snowden
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Sonia Sotomayor
Snoop Dogg
– real name Calvin Broadus.
Britney Spears
and ex-husband
Kevin Federline
Spice Girls
– numerous controversies.
Jerry Springer
SSSniperWolf
Joseph Stalin
, Soviet dictator who lead the USSR during the Depression and WWII, main perpetrator of
The Great Purge
and other Soviet atrocities.
Gloria Steinem
Erika Steinbach
Howard Stern
– radio "
shock jock
" and liberal activist.
Jon Stewart
Sting
– political activist.
John Stossel
Barbra Streisand
Jimmy Swaggart
Andrew Tate
- far-right internet personality involved with several controversies, including sexual exploitation and human trafficking.
Tim Tebow
Nikola Tesla
(his nationality being
Serb
vs.
Croat
).
Margaret Thatcher
– U.K. Prime Minister.
Justin Trudeau
- Canadian Prime Minister
Pierre Trudeau
– Canadian Prime Minister.
Harry Truman
– U.S. president; also, decision while in that office to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan to end WWII.
Donald Trump
President of the United States
Ted Turner
Mike Tyson
U2
– Irish rock band involved in political activist causes.
Joran van der Sloot
Michael Vick
due to his involvement in illegal dogfighting.
Varg Vikernes
Barbara Walters
John Walsh
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Adam Walsh
was kidnapped, later found dead in 1981.
Andy Warhol
Kanye West
– Rapper, also as ex-husband of Kim Kardashian.
Ruth Westheimer
Brian Williams
Joseph C. Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
– U.S. president.
Oprah Winfrey
Susan Wojcicki
- former CEO of
from 2015 to 2023, is speculated to be behind controversial changes of the website.
Tiger Woods
Malcolm X
Xi Jinping
– Chinese paramount leader.
Andrea Yates
– Mass murderer of her 5 children in her home, claimed to have mental illness and
post-natal depression
Boris Yeltsin
– Russian leader.
Yoko Ono
– accusations of breaking up
The Beatles
when she married John Lennon.
Zinedine Zidane
George Zimmerman
acquitted of murdering
Trayvon Martin
Jacob Zuma
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
– Sikh militant leader
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edit
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Chicago White Sox
vs
Cincinnati Reds
).
Barry Bonds
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and other
MLB
players in the 2000s doping scandals.
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Fantasy sports
Golf
Hope Solo
Jesse Owens
Jim Thorpe
Olympics
Pete Rose
in 1989 team gambling controversy.
Ryan Lochte
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Super Bowl XXXVIII
Janet Jackson Wardrobe Malfunction
Tonya Harding
Larry Nassar
Lance Armstrong
Jerry Sandusky
Joe Paterno
See also
edit
Wikipedia:Describing points of view
(essay)
Wikipedia:Don't teach the controversy
(essay: that phrase doesn't mean what you think it means)
Wikipedia:Creating controversial content
(essay)
Wikipedia:Criticism
(essay)
meta:2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content
External links
edit
Emerging Technology from thearXiv (July 17, 2013).
"Edit Wars Reveal The 10 Most Controversial Topics on Wikipedia"
MIT Technology Review
. Retrieved
March 7,
2022
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