> On 09/03/2011 23:24, Tony Sidaway wrote: >> Think Progress, a progressive blog run by the Center for American >> Progress, today ran a story about a hired PR firm creating sock puppet >> accounts to clean up Wikipedia articles for the Koch brothers. >> >> If true, this will only get messier as the Presidential election >> campaign 2012 heats up. >> >> >> http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/09/koch-wikipedia-sock-puppet/ >> > What is an "airbush"? I think we should be told. > > Seriously, a blog item so poorly written proof-read is hard to treat as > authoritative. [[Charles G. Koch]] does apparently need work. > > Charles
Our article "Airbrush" does not include information on the use of "airbrush" as a metaphor, although it has a section on the technique as used to retouch photographs. In this context airbushing the Koch brothers article, emphasizing the positive and de-emphasizing the negative, would produce the kind of pablum point of view editors would like to serve us up about other controversial figures and practices. I'm surprised to see that our Wiktionary article also does not treat airbrush as a metaphor. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/en/wiki/airbrush We understand it well, it is point of view editing. Airbrushing has a connotation of doing so carefully and subtly. I'm afraid this editor failed in that respect; he seems to have been quite bold, announcing his conflict of interest in his first edit. He is now banned, and I cannot say there was not a good basis for that, but he was hardly subtle. And a good deal of what he did was on the talk page of the articles, which is what we ask. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l