Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-14 Thread Fred Bauder
It is possible to provide arguments against the reliability of any source whatever. (And in the other direction, it is possible to take most sources and selectively quote them to provide evidence for support for any position whatever.) It is possible to destroy the integrity of any article by

Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-14 Thread Tony Sidaway
I certainly wouldn't treat any blog entry too seriously. I merely wanted to announce the official beginning of the Wikipedia US Election 2012 season! ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

[WikiEN-l] ITN section (Main Page)

2011-03-14 Thread Carcharoth
Can anyone reading and who knows how the ITN section of the Main Page works consider giving the Main Page errors process a prod to get things moving? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors I posted there this morning about how the blurb on the Japan earthquake and tsunami is

Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-14 Thread Ian Woollard
On 14/03/2011, David Goodman dgge...@gmail.com wrote: It is possible to provide arguments against the reliability of any source whatever. (And in the other direction, it is possible to take most sources and selectively quote them to provide evidence for support for any position whatever.) It

Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-14 Thread The Cunctator
Of course, if an interested minority party has effectively infinite money, they can start to tip the scales. On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.comwrote: On 14/03/2011, David Goodman dgge...@gmail.com wrote: It is possible to provide arguments against the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-14 Thread Fred Bauder
Of course, if an interested minority party has effectively infinite money, they can start to tip the scales. If they can benefit from LOTS of negative PR... Fred ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this

Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-14 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, David Goodman wrote: It is possible to provide arguments against the reliability of any source whatever. (And in the other direction, it is possible to take most sources and selectively quote them to provide evidence for support for any position whatever.) It is possible

Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-14 Thread The Cunctator
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, David Goodman wrote: It is possible to provide arguments against the reliability of any source whatever. (And in the other direction, it is possible to take most sources and selectively quote them

Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-14 Thread Fred Bauder
The Koch brothers are mostly unknown. It is a known fact that they have at least one professional PR firm (New Media Strategies) working to monitor their Wikipedia presence. That's certainly within their rights, and can be within the Wikipedia rules. It is Ken's assertion that there are

Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-14 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, The Cunctator wrote: The Koch brothers are mostly unknown. ... ... It is Ken's assertion that there are many people highly motivated to write misrepresentations and unbalanced articles, though the evidence seems to point to there being maybe a handful of such people.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-14 Thread The Cunctator
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, The Cunctator wrote: The Koch brothers are mostly unknown. ... ... It is Ken's assertion that there are many people highly motivated to write misrepresentations and unbalanced articles, though