Re: [WikiEN-l] A reader's experience with The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia

2011-12-04 Thread Will Beback
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com wrote: http://daggle.com/closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853 Now whatever the merits of his case, this chap does have a point about the unfriendliness of the environment. It isn't so much that we've gone out of our way to

Re: [WikiEN-l] User:RickK2

2011-08-14 Thread Will Beback
R., Thanks for your note. I've forwarded it, with headings, to the ArbCom. Hopefully this can get straightened out. -Will On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Rick giantsric...@yahoo.com wrote: If anybody recognizes this email address as coming from me originally (User:RickK), I would just like

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-26 Thread Will Beback
that Charles Matthew has participated in this thread. Could he or another editor who was present describe the tone of the discussion, and whether Cirt was mentioned by name? -Will Beback ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-23 Thread Will Beback
to verifiably summarizing reliable sources using the neutral point of view, with due consideration for living people, we'll stay on the right path. -Will Beback ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia a reliable source for political info, study says

2011-04-14 Thread Will Beback
That's a remarkable achievement. Some might think that the bios of active politicians would have more problems with accuracy. -Will Beback On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.netwrote: Brown found that all of the verifiable biographical information in those

Re: [WikiEN-l] Linkage bloat

2011-04-04 Thread Will Beback
helpful if a solution could be found. -Will Beback On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote: On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote: Basically, what matters here is readability and usefulness. And knowing how many links

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

2011-03-15 Thread Will Beback
The article doesn't say that a conspiracy within Wikipedia tried to bias articles. It says that a prominent industrialist and political contributor paid professional writers to alter Wikipedia articles to change the descriptions of his involvement in a political movement. It's a situation where