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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@Ross – ‘The Register called Wikipedia “the Khmer Rouge in Diapers”’:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/07/khmer_rouge_in_daipers/
I thought up the phrase ‘Khmer Vert’ – at last – my own buzzword! I was disappointed to find someone else had already used it. Then I found out it was a parody of skeptics parodying warmists. A bit like Fran Armstrong’s movie parodying greenshirts blowing up recalcitrant children. Just a bit of harmless, self-deprecating humor, showing the climate change promoters are big enough to laugh at themselves. Nothing to worry about.
http://wikipediaisbiased.wordpress.com
‘Hate, wikibias and the Arab Islamic militant lobby’
THE PROBLEM WITH WIKIPEDIABIAS VIS-A-VIS ISRAEL
HOW IT ‘WORKS’
1) OUTNUMBERED
There’s always 2 to 1 or 10 to 2, in the ratio when trying to defend the non-Palestinian version.
2) NON-STOP ORGANIZED
The anti-Israel wikipedians are 24 hrs non-stop well organized and work in team (though one or tow are using “sock puppets” when needed), tag-teams, suggesting organizations and financial backing.
This lobby works mainly in: Edit wars, relentless reverting edits they dislike, pushing to delete any article that is not in their line. Lobbying adminIstrators to back them up.
3) AGGRESSIVE AND RADICAL
The (POV – point of view pushing] line these anti-Israel users adopted is hard-line Islamist.
4) WHAT IS A RELIABLE SOURCE? AND ‘YOU ARE A SOCK – BLOCKED!’
One of the main “leaders” in the anti-Israel Arab-Islamic “mob” has introduced and dictates a line whereby any non-lefty Israel source is branded as unreliable and whoever comes fresh to wikipedia and tries to defend the non-anti-Israel-line “must” be a “sockpuppet” of someone else, and pushes administrators to block him/her based on this pseudo notion and “evidence.”
5) TERRORIZING
The terrorizing mentality by some Islamists in real life does not escape Wikipedia, once an editor makes edit/s “not in line” they are after him/her, harassing, keeping reverting his edits, even when unrelated to Israel.
6) WHERE THE BIAS – SCREAMS
Anti-Israel editors are allowed to edit war as much as they wish, the other side is being harassed under banner of “disruption.” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Chesdovi_blocked ]
“Accusation” of someone as a sockpuppet if it’s by anti-Israel Islamists its considered in a serious manner, carefully investigated and blocking occurs even without definite evidence, when such an accuation is being presented by the other side it’s rejected as an outright “bad faith,” and never investigated.