Editing Historical revisionism

'''Historical revisionism''' is the phenomenon in which one revisits, reexamines, and attempts to revise the established or commonly-held view of historical events.  This can be helpful to the study of history when the conclusions reached are fact-based and follow the scientific method; or harmful when they rely on incorrect, selective, or manipulated data.

The label 'historical revisionist', much like '[[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorist]]', is often used by people (whose method of "historical research" is skimming [[Wikipedia]] articles) to dismiss different perspectives without examining the evidence for said perspectives.