The following results were generated based on a database snapshot from 20 September 2003:

Originally posted to Wikipedia:Village Pump

After a week of observing serious concerns on Village Pump -- "Wikipedia needs an editor", "We've lost another two", "protecting Wikipedia", NPOV disputes, epidemic personal attacks, and the like -- I wanted to find out how well perception stood up to the statistics. What I found was a real surprise. Searching through all the articles for neutral point of view (Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute) warnings, care to guess how many articles came back? With 160,000+ articles in the English edition, I was thinking hundreds if not thousands were in dispute, but the actual number was 89. (September 20, 2003 database dump, with recent dumps about the same). That's 0.06% of pages being NPOV disputed. Of those 89 articles, 30 are related to Israel-Palestine or Jewish-Muslim-Christian issues.

Granted, not all hotly debated articles have an "NPOV dispute" notice at the top, but with my guess being an order of magnitude (or two) WAY OFF is telling. Even if we are generous and say there are 10 times as many articles that are "hot button" and are not labeled "NPOV dispute" that's still only 0.6% of articles. A very small number of articles are creating headaches and bad blood. It seems to not be an 80-20 rule but a 99-1 rule. Just something to keep in perspective as we propose massive policy changes that may drastically change the face of Wikipedia. Fuzheado 10:09, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Pages listed below were normal articles that contained a link to the "Wikipedia:NPOV dispute" page. There were 89 articles retrieved, with over one third (30) related to Israel-Palestine or Jewish-Muslim-Christian issues (denoted with a * below).

SQL command:

cur_namespace=0 AND cur_is_redirect=0 AND cur_text LIKE '%[[Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute%'

  Aegean_Macedonia
* Al-Aqsa_Intifada
  Anti-French_sentiment_in_the_United_States
  Anti-globalization_movement
* Arab-Israeli_conflict
* Arabs_and_anti-Semitism
  Arduin
  Argument_from_Ignorance
  Aryan_invasion_theory
  Assured_destruction
  Authoritarianism
  Biodefense
  Biosafety_protocol
  Biosecurity_protocol
  Chinese_Canadian
  Continuation_War
  Corentin_Louis_Kervran
  Croatian_language
* Deir_Yassin_massacre
* Dhimmi
  Easter_Bradford
  Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
  Foreign_relations_of_France
  French_Resistance
  Gaian
  Genetic_engineering
  Gladys_Rodriguez
  Global_warming_skepticism
  Happy_Birthday
  Hector_Camacho
* Hezbollah
* History_of_Israel
  History_of_Tibet
  History_of_United_States_Imperialism
* Hudna
* Immanuel_Velikovsky
  Individualism
  Irian_Jaya
* Islam_and_anti-Semitism
* Islamism
* Israeli-Palestinian_conflict
* Israeli-Palestinian_conflict_timeline
* Israeli_attack_on_USS_Liberty
* Israeli_settlement
* Israeli_terrorism
* Israelis_and_anti-Palestinian_racism
  Jean-Marie_Le_Pen
* Jenin
  José_Bové
  Khalistan
  Kirtland_Safety_Society
  Kosovo_War
  Krakow
  Libertarian_survivalist
* List_of_massacres_committed_during_the_1948_Arab-Israeli_war
  List_of_notable_eccentrics
  List_of_speculative_or_fringe_theories
  Literacy
  Marriage
  Massacre_in_Racak
  Media_in_Poland
  Mediation
  Medical_analysis_of_circumcision
* Menachem_Mendel_Schneerson
  Moral_core
  Neutrosophy
  Open_Directory_Project
  Organic_farming
* PLO_and_Hamas
* Palestine
* Palestinian
* Palestinian_Authority
* Palestinian_views_of_the_peace_process
  Palladium_operating_system
  Political_correctness
  Property_damage
* Proposals_for_a_Palestinian_state
  Rogue_state
* Ruhollah_Khomeini
  Seabees
  Social_issues_in_the_United_States
  Spanish_Inquisition
* Terrorism_against_Arabs
  Thealogy
  Timeline_of_Slovene_history
  Tintin_in_America
* Tsherim_Soobzokov
  Ustase
* Zionism_and_racism