We all know William Connolley is an advocate for taking climate change
seriously. However there remains a lack of reliable information which
negates his position. If there was such information, those of us who
follow this issue would have settled his beeswax fast enough.

Fred

> Ken Arromdee wrote:
>> Now has a Slashdot story:
>>
>> http://slashdot.org/submission/1137140/Climategate-spreads-to-Wikipedia
>>
>> Which links to two articles:
>> http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=62e1c98e-01ed-4c55-bf3d-5078af9cb409
>> http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/05/03/who-is-william-connolley-solomon.aspx
>>
>> At a minimum this sounds like conflict of interest, and worse if any of
>> these
>> accusations are true (although the article counts are probably
>> misreporting,
>> and I bet they include all articles he deleted and all banned users
>> regardless
>> of associations with climate change).
>>
>>
> Erm, you wouldn't be jumping to any conclusions here? And
> misinterpreting what we mean by "conflict of interest"? Which does not
> equate to academic involvement in a topic (no longer William's
> situation, by the way?) Or neglecting quite a substantial history of
> dispute resolution down the years, which at minimum involves people who
> actually understand policy looking at actual edits?
>
> Charles
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> WikiEN-l mailing list
> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
>



_______________________________________________
WikiEN-l mailing list
WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Reply via email to