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Link to the PDF being referenced: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1305/1305.5566.pdf

My favorite is the top result in Hungary: Gypsy Crime.

I thought it was bizarre to even have a page called "Gypsy Crime," but then I checked and discovered that this page exists:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_crime

It's a redirect showing the article "Race and crime in the United States," but "Black_crime" is sitting right there in the address bar.

Its nice that you're feeling PC, but do you really want to contend that there's no link between skin colour and crime in the US? I thought that was a fairly massive social issue over there, well-deserving of a wikipedia page.

I think the link is socioeconomic status and crime. If there was a connection between skin color and crime in the US why would this genetic predisposition stop at the border?

Does it?

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/01/police-routinely-sup...

The way I read that article the whitewashing means that it is not possible for researchers to assess wether the LEOs are engaging in racial profiling. Did you interpret the article to mean that some minorioties are genetically predisposed to crime?

The article did not discuss genetics. Your question makes no sense.

Just to make sure we are on the same page: You don't think that increased levels of melanin means that an individual is more likely to be a criminal?

With that out of the way. The conversation went like this:

dsuth: "I thought that [the link between skin colour and crime in the US] was a fairly massive social issue over there, well-deserving of a wikipedia page."

me: "If there was a connection between skin color and crime in the US why would this genetic predisposition stop at the border?"

you: "Does it? http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/01/police-routinely-sup... "

I am not sure where we got our signals crossed.

* What were you questioning when you asked "does it?"

* What did you expect I was going to get out of the article you linked to?

* You do not think that a person's race is a matter of genetics?

Didn't you mean to imply that blacks in countries bordering the US had substantially lower crime rates than blacks in the US? If you didn't, then I have no idea what you were getting at.

It's not the topic, but rather how the title frames the topic. It isn't exactly neutral. (Compare the actual article title.) It seems that in contrast to article titles, Wikipedia allows redirects containing non-neutral language, and when an article title is deemed inappropriate and changed, they sometimes even allow the original title to be maintained as a redirect.

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