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Wikipedia and the CBF

Wikipedia is many times used by people who want to know more about a subject or content. This is going to take someone far smarter than I am to fix the problems.

From what I can gather anyone can join Wikipedia and do an article or rewrite or add material if they have proper documentation.

As long as I can remember when someone looked at a subject like the Battle of Chickamauga as an example to the right you would see two flags both in equal size; The American Flag and the Confederate Battle Flag. Now if you go to the same site you will see the American Flag but just a dot representing the opposing army. Using glasses and a magnifying glass you will see the dot is really a Confederate Battle Flag.

As far as I know Wikipedia is made from people who write the stories. It appears that someone after the murders in Charleston has gone into Wikipedia and cropped the Confederate Battle Flag into a dot. Someone who is familiar with and writes for Wikipedia could also go into the site and restore the Confederate Battle Flag to it's normal size.

It's not about Chickamauga, choose whatever battle you would like and you will see the same things. They also appear to have changed the Stars and Bars into a form that is not recognized.

It appears to me this was not the work done by Wikipedia itself but rather by those who dislike the Confederate Battle Flag.

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