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Another reason parents might want to ban Wikipedia from schools and libraries - 7/14/2009

... about this. On the one hand, Wikipedia is little more than a disinformation source that presents a biased, mostly leftwing Beltway establishment view of U.S. politics. And, due to its innumerable inaccuracies it's already been banned from some schools and libraries or at least forbidden as a reference. On the other hand, exposing it to sunlight is the best desiccant. However, parents of youn...

Barack Obama gave differing accounts of which hospital he was born in (Wikipedia and Snopes too) - 7/08/2009

... Yet, not only have Snopes and Wikipedia given differing accounts of which hospital he was born in, but so has Obama himself. How can anyone claim to know for a fact that he was born there at the same time as giving differing accounts of which hospital it was? That doesn't mean he wasn't born in Honolulu, it just means that none of those sources are credible and it's yet another exa...

Wikipedia helps NYT hide truth about David Rohde kidnapping; "Reliable Sources" - 6/29/2009

... secret was Jimmy Wales, head of Wikipedia. The details - at least from the NYT side of things - is in "Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia" by Richard Perez Pena (link). There certainly is a strong moral side to this issue, but at the same time it's highly doubtful that Wales would have done the same for a reporter from, say, CNS News or for an independent such as Michael Yon ...

WikiQuote's bogus, circular smear of Rush Limbaugh (Jack Huberman; James Earl Ray quote) - 6/17/2009

Wikiquote - affiliated with Wikipedia - is using as a source for an almost assuredly bogus and highly inflammatory Rush Limbaugh quote a book that was published 10 months after the unattributed quote was added to the same Wikiquote page. The 06:01, 20 July 2005 revision of en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh (by someone using the IP address 69.64.213.146, more at [1]) was the first ap...

Wikipedia misleads, smears about Obama citizenship "conspiracy theory" - 3/10/2009

Wikipedia has a page called "Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories" (en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories) that smears those who have questions about where Obama was born and whether he's eligible to be president as fringe conspiracy theorists. And, as will be shown below, that page has been grossly misleading visitors about this issue for almos...

WorldNetDaily, Newsbusters criticize Wikipedia while helping it - 3/08/2009

WorldNetDaily informs us that "Wikipedia scrubs Obama eligibility/Mention of citizenship issues deleted in minutes, 'offending' users banned" (wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91114). They're right about that, but at the same time as criticizing Wikipedia they also help that site by linking to it. The best way to deal with WP is to stop linking to it and encou...

Citizen journalists: how to increase the effectiveness of your criticism - 1/25/2009

This post will look at three rightwing blog postings and describe how they could have been more effective. I keep seeing people make these same mistakes and - to be frank - to a certain extent I don't want them to do things the better way since that's more competition for me. On the other hand, another mistake they and similar people make is to not read this site, so it all evens out.

ZXY4931 is my new Wikipedia username - 1/16/2009

I've used the Wikipedia username "LonewackoDotCom" since 2005 or before, and no one's raised any issues with that name. However, after a recent attempt to post the indisputable facts about the Obama citizenship issue to the Barack Obama talk page at Wikipedia, one of their users indefinitely blocked me, claiming that my username violated their guidelines. They don't allow ...

Obama "Energy Czar" Carol Browner's membership in Socialist panel scrubbed from website, Wikipedia - 1/10/2009

... here. The scrubbing continued at Wikipedia, where the news that she was a member of that panel was deleted by someone using an IP address belonging to The New Republic; see this. Here's her biography as listed by the SI: Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency under President Bill Clinton. Leading the EPA from 1993 to 2001, she was the longest-serving Administra...

Obama strategist David Axelrod owns "astroturfing" company (ASK Public Strategies) - 9/11/2008

... following line to the start of his Wikipedia page; let's see how long it stays there: He operates ASK Public Strategies, a company that allegedly engages in "astroturfing" [http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/mar2008/db20080314_121054.htm]. 9/29/08 15:55 PST UPDATE: At this exact moment, someone else has provided a full section on ASK at his WP page, what will happe...

Eve Fairbanks misleads about Wikipedia (+Kevin Drum) - 4/15/2008

... "liberals" tell you that Wikipedia isn't biased towards the "liberal" side of things, doesn't that prove that it is biased, especially when the two "liberals" aren't exactly known for thinking things through? OK, it's not proof, but it is a strong indicator, as Kevin Drum [1] approvingly directs our attention to the post from Eve Fairbanks [2] of ...

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