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The curious case of Croatian wikipedia

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Re: The curious case of Croatian wikipedia

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As others have noted, I don't think this is an entirely unique situation. The decentralized nature of Wikipedia's editorship results in these kind of situations with fair frequency. > Something can be factually true, but where there is a number of facts, choosing the less important ones and omitting the more important ones tends to lead to wrong conclusions. According to sources, Tito was both an autocrat and a dicta…

It is interesting. * The English wiki says "while his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian [..], Tito has traditionally been seen as a benevolent dictator." * The German wiki calls Tito a dictatorial head of state. * In the Italian wiki his is clearly a "dittatore". * The spanish one does not seem to judge. * Neither does the french one.

The French one has "La dictature" as one of the headers in the biography, and give examples of why he was a dictator.

Re: The curious case of Croatian wikipedia

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In Argentina we have the other problem: the right media accuses Wikipedia to be hijacked by leftists or peronists, because they don't like that biographies of genocides of our last dictatorship and their civil accomplices (now in politics) being exposed. The Right is the problem of our modern world.
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