This is a list of previously controversial issues. The primary characteristic of a controversial issue is that the article is constantly being edited in a circular manner, or even worse provoking edit wars.
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.
Articles listed here may need more work to approach a neutral point of view than is usual. For articles that are currently unbalanced, see NPOV dispute 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.
Discussions about those controversies should be limited to the relevant Talk pages. For more information, see Ireland Information Guide:Guidelines for controversial articles.
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Categories of past controversial issues
Many of these articles could be classified into multiple categories.
Biology / Health
- AIDS reappraisal
- Alternative medicine and closely related issues
- Circumcision
- Drug
- Euthanasia
- Genital mutilation
- Homeopathy
- Human cloning
- Morality and legality of abortion
- Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
- Population explosion aka Overpopulation
- Race and intelligence
- Schizophrenia
- Subluxation
- Tobacco smoking
- Vegetarianism
Countries and national groups
Entertainment
- Censorship
- Entertainment Software Ratings Board
- Entertainment restriction
- Inherently funny word
- Moral panic
- MPAA film rating system
- Video game controversy
Environment
Geography
History
- Apartheid
- Aryan invasion theory
- Bromberg Bloody Sunday
- Bloody Sunday (1972)
- Eisenhower and German POWs
- Genocide
- Great Depression
- Heimatvertriebene
- Holocaust
- Holocaust revisionism
- Kosovo War
- Middle Ages
- Prussia
- Silesia
- The Rape of Nanking (book)
- Numerous episodes of Ukrainian-Russian relations
- Numerous episodes of Ukrainian-Polish relations
- Jews in Ukraine, "Ukrainian antisemitism"
People
- Adolf Hitler
- Nicolaus Copernicus - ethnicity problem
- Hugo Chávez
- Galileo Galilei
- Martin Luther
- Mother Teresa
- Ruđer Bošković - ethnicity problem
Philosophy
Politics
- Al Gore
- Anarchism
- Ariel Sharon
- Apartheid (especially the "Alleged apartheid .." sections)
- Osama bin Laden
- Black supremacy
- British National Party
- Communism
- Communist government
- Communist state
- Copyright, Free software, viral license, Software piracy, DMCA, copyright term extension, Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation Act of 2004
- Domestic violence
- Eisenhower and German POWs
- Fascism
- Federal Marriage Amendment
- Feminism
- Freedom fighter
- John Kerry
- George W. Bush
- Gun politics
- History of Israel
- Israeli terrorism
- Israel-Palestine conflict
- Jean-Marie Le Pen
- Kashmir
- Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia, Macedonian Slavs
- Masculism
- Metrication
- Micronation
- Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali
- Pakkoruotsi
- Palestine
- Palestine Liberation Organization
- Peoples Republic of China
- Political correctness
- Rush Limbaugh
- Salvador Allende
- Same-sex marriage
- Separatism
- September 11, 2001 attacks
- Silesia
- Synarchism
- Taliban
- Terrorism
- Terrorist groups
- Tibet
- Torture
- Zionism and racism
Religion
- Anti-Semitism
- Atheism
- Catholicism
- Creationism
- Cult (may be worth following what links to this one)
- Deism (warning: an abusive user takes offense at any changes)
- Fundamentalism
- Islamophobia
- List of purported cults This seems to be more controversial than the cult article
- Maharaji (Prem Rawat) Currently developing alternate versions of the article in an effort to reach concensus
- Makkah/Mecca ('Offensive' spelling)
- New Age
- Scientology
Sexuality
- Erotophobia
- Genetic sexual attraction
- Genital modification
- Genital mutilation
- Homosexuality
- Incest
- Love-shyness
- Monogamy
- Pedophilia
- Polygamy
- Pornography
- Zoophilia
Sports
Technology
- Object-oriented programming
- Relational Database Management System