Wikipedia talk:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat

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Omer Benjakob (December 15, 2017). "Is the Sky Blue? How Wikipedia Is Fighting for Facts by Redefining the Truth". Haaretz. Retrieved February 17, 2024. Titled "Why Wikipedia can't claim the Earth is flat," the essay makes a somewhat startling yet revealing claim: "If Wikipedia had been available around the sixth century B.C., it would have reported the view that the Earth is flat as a fact and without qualification."

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Unproven Theory[edit]

Flat Earthism is a theory, not a fact, that Flat Earthers are reluctant to test rigorously. Deletion will prove this statement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.46.72.73 (talk) 15:05, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 26 October 2021[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: WP:SNOW close. There is an overwhelming consensus that the article should stay at the current title and should stay with the current manner of approaching the topic too. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 14:22, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat → Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia cannot claim COVID-19 is not a hoax – the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic 207.81.187.41 (talk) 04:59, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. The Flat Earth allegory is timeless and completely free of political/social baggage. I don't see any value in changing it. - LuckyLouie (talk) 13:46, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose and suggest this should be closed speedily for lack of rationale. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 20:24, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per the above. There is not a clear rationale and I also do not see any value in this change. Aoba47 (talk) 02:05, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above and WP:RECENTISM. TiggerJay (talk) 16:35, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per previous commenters (especially LuckyLouie); the Flat Earth allegory also makes for a more natural-sounding title than COVID does. ModernDayTrilobite (talk) 18:54, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - the article is not about Covid, it should be at it's own place with relevant content, not here. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 21:08, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Triple negative in opening sentence, ugh![edit]

> It is unlikely that you will ever happen upon an editor who will argue that Wikipedia cannot claim that the Earth is not flat.

At a glance, I can't say that I don't disagree with this statement; it's difficult to parse. Do you not think otherwise? -- Doktor Züm (talk) 17:38, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]