----- Original Message ----- From: "Skyring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How to sabotage Wikipedia, for SEO spammers
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 2:18 AM, David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://www.bluehatseo.com/how-to-overthrow-a-wikipedia-result/ >> >> What an odious person. >> >> >> - d. > > Well, it depends on your viewpoint. From his point of view, the idea > is to rank a Wikipedia page down so a given page rises above it, and > he provides tactics on how to do this. The fact that this damages > Wikipedia is irrelevant. I'm glad they're not manipulating the ratings themselves. I'm more than happy to put a project's rating template in and give it the best of my judgement, and I've never argued with someone else's rating, except upward. I did not add the CompSci template to [[gossip protocol]], and I am not finished with it, either. It won't get a high rating for importance, because it is only theory. > In fact, within Wikipedia you get a lot of similar activity from > POV-warriors. Their aim is to present polemic rather than information. > A minor example of this can be found at Alex Jones (radio host). The > guy's a nut of the first order, but he's got a string of defenders, > often anons, who remove any criticism of their hero. Of course > Wikipedia is part of the conspiracy to discredit him and these guys > are just setting the record strait. There is so much of a record in a radio host that won't matter in two years that I wouldn't pay much attention. Shock jock, newscaster, opinion columnist -- don't care. That guy who does "The Rest of The Story" will persist beyond his death. > I'm sure everyone on this list has their own favorite example article, > where POV ducklings nibble away at objectivity, hoping to remain under > the radar. Weasel words [[ad populum]] and other stilts (clues about POV) go in and out of [[prion]], and there does not seem to be much to know about prions. A great many people can conceive of self-modification with only protein. I cannot, and it is out of my field, so I do not really know. Maybe I should get Brown's book. I wonder if it's in the library. I got into wikipedia, because of [[prion]] in the Oxford dictionary of Phrase and Fable. I want to take out every mention of "hypothesis" from [[prion]], except ones in a section header. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l