Apparently Wikipedia’s own attempt at self policing problem editors isn’t working. Despite being up for a restriction or a ban, rogue Wiki editor (and Real Climate co-founder) William Connolley is still removing anything he doesn’t like when it comes to climate science. This time it’s wholesale removal of any reference to the American Physical Society resignation letter of physicist Hal Lewis, who resigned over the APS global warming position:
And no wonder, the traffic to the Hal Lewis Wikipedia page looks likes a hockey stick. People are learning about the reasons for the Lewis APS resignation, and Mr. Connolley can’t have that:
Here’s the Wiki history page. Note the comment by Mr. Connolley:
And look at the Wiki entry for Hal Lewis now, fully sterilized:
Ironically. the yellow highlighted text says:
This article about an American physicist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Yeah, right. Just try.
Members of Wikipedia, you need to show William Connolley the door, or at the very least, put up a new picture for him:
Don’t get it? Read this.
h/t to WUWT reader “gibo”
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These people have no shame! Off with their heads…oh but we can’t do that in civil society, can we?
“rouge Wiki editor (and Real Climate co-founder) William Connolley”
I love that slip. I would at all to be surprised to find out that the “Stoat” is darkish hue of red.
Connelley and his RealClimate mates are Green Shirt fascists. The behaviour is straight out of the 1930’s.
BBC told to ensure balance on climate change.
Are they finally seeing the light.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8060211/BBC-told-to-ensure-balance-on-climate-change.html
Wikipedia has become like the medieval Catholic church, with its own Index Librorum and Virorum Prohibitorum. Connolley can join the proud ranks of book burners and thieves of truth. I have to say I despair of the truth being finally told; so much is arrayed against that hope.
I am still stunned that these people, anyone in fact, believes one can “disappear” stuff from the interweb. Well, maybe sometimes, but mostly one fails after the event. It is out there until we stop making electrickery (Cat Weasle, 1970’s UK).
It only goes to show that in our new ‘Green Utopia’, some physicists will be more equal than others.
Typo perhaps? Rouge is French for red (or English for a type of facial make-up).
Rogue is a scallywag or uncontrolled agent.
[Fixed, thanks. ~dbs]
Is Connolley still living at the grace of the taxpayers’ dollar? Interesting way to spend his working day.
What is the significance (translation into non-wiki terms please) of Connolley’s(?) comment:
“el rego isn’t an RS”
Thanks
Thanks for your post. I am sure you mean “rogue” in the first paragraph, not “rouge”.
[Fixed, thanx. ~dbs]
Wreckapedia.
PJB says:
October 13, 2010 at 4:26 am
What is the significance (translation into non-wiki terms please) of Connolley’s(?) comment:
“el rego isn’t an RS”
He means The Register (a UK online tech portal) isn’t a reliable source. Someone probably linked to an article there as source for the modifications to the page, which (as I’ve learned in the past) gives them all the reason they need to “revert” changes – if they don’t like the source, well, they don’t have to listen to you.
‘el rego isn’t an RS’ I think translates as ‘The Register isn’t a reliable source’.
Paul
Keep the spotlight on W. Connolley! That’s perhaps the best way to disinfect Wikipedia of such a nefarious scoundrel!
If I were Lewis I’d be rather insulted. Nothing he did during his entire professional career was apparently significant enough to warrant a Wikipedia page. Not until he at the age of 87 leaves APS is that considered newsworthy and suddenly someone adds a page consisting only of that letter, nothing else.
Gradually the page is evolving into something more reasonable, and Connolley wasn’t the only one complaining about the prominence of that letter, but I guess he is the bogeyman on this blog.
Fascist tactics, by a fascist mind, claiming to be a “Green”. When writing a biased version of the story, is not enough, and the story must be erased entirely, you must be getting seriously worried. For someone familiar with the Internet, the tactic is also naive
William Connelly-gate just keeps growing.
Proves this is about ideology, and not science.
This guy is a blessing in disguise to the skeptical movement. I say definitely leave him there its slowly wrecking the AGW cause as people see/learn about this (refer Jones etc et al)
Thank Gore, No Pressure, for the interweby.
The Grauniad has a go at the Register (el Reg!)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/12/graun_robbins_counterblast/
And here’s the Register article which was not good enough for Connolley.
The last lines of the article read as follows:-
“Updated to Add
We’ve now heard back from Professor Lewis, who confirms that the letter is indeed his work and he stands by it.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/11/lewis_resignation_letter/
Whoever submitted the first piece should resubmit citing
http://www.thegwpf.org/ipcc-news/1670-hal-lewis-my-resignation-from-the-american-physical-society.html
and at the same time cite this
http://www.thegwpf.org/news/1687-professor-hal-lewis-joins-the-gwpf.html
el wiki isn’t an RS.
Fixed. ☺
Connolley is obviously a shill for the oil companies who buy into cap and trade, a lackey for the socialists, a man with no integrity, and would have not problem with a totalitarian state. Squelching free speech is the first thing to do in his mind.
Having had interactions with him before on Wiki, he is a bully and a thug. No class, no character. Let’s throw him under the bus along with Al, Jim, Michael, and Maurice.