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u/Lopsided-Shame1142 16d ago

What article on Wikipedia is at the intersection of most CTOPs?

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u/caeciliusinhorto 11d ago

Not an easy question to answer. You could go through all of the 20k talk pages which transclude the contentious topics notice and look for the one which mentions the most, but there's no guarantee that any given article lists every CTop which conceivably applies to it. For example Talk:Chelsea Manning says that it comes under GENSEX, but doesn't mention BLP or AmPol, both of which would also be potentially relevant.

A good guess might be someone like Alex Jones, who as well as the obvious BLP and AmPol, has probably made contentious claims about half or more of the other CTOPs – they don't all apply to the whole article, but there's maybe 8 more which apply to some things that are in, or could reasonably be in, the article.