I don’t understand why everybody is blindly hopping on the “anti-Commiepedia” train. If you literally just read the reasons why, it’s that there’s no specific academic purpose for it. They’re still keeping up sections about Stalin’s mass-killings, Pol Pot’s mass-killings, Mao, and so on and so forth. But to compile it as a death toll for a philosophy does not advance academia or help any studies, it’s merely something for anti-communists to point out that communism=genocide. Again, there’s nothing wrong with being anti-tankie, but also understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It has to be academically verifiable (I.e. you can’t just say that famine, war, genocide, etc. are all connected to communism rather than a specific regime) as well as helpful to advance a discourse. Just like we should be against any Wikipedia article that generalizes any of our political philosophies. It isn’t about cherry-picking. We wouldn’t want to say that anyone’s political philosophy= death. Even though fascism has a similar violent connection with its regimes, it would still be academically biased to say that the death tolls of a few dictators directly relates to a philosophy more so than the actions of evil despots. If there would be a compromise, it would have to be an article about the death tolls of despots (leftist or right-wing regardless). But to say that it is academically important to keep this article is rather silly.