Lawrence Solomon: Wikipedia’s climate doctor-Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles

Financial Post (Canada) ^ | December 19, 2009 | Lawrence Solomon

[theBuckwheat]

... All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.

The Medieval Warm Period disappeared, as did criticism of the global warming orthodoxy. With the release of the Climategate Emails, the disappearing trick has been exposed. The glorious Medieval Warm Period will remain in the history books, perhaps with an asterisk to describe how a band of zealots once tried to make it disappear...

[theBuckwheat]

The advocates of global warming have been waging GUILEFARE against the truth, our prosperity and our liberty in attempting to create their secular utopia funded seizing by OUR wealth.

[theBuckwheat]

Cute typo. ... by seizing OUR wealth!

[rodguy911]

This is pretty hugh!

[Tribune7]

They do the same thing with regard to Intelligent Design.

[Fury]

One reason why no college course I have taken allows Wikipedia to be cited as a Primary (?) or Secondary source.

[penelopesire]

Ping!

Who was paying him to do his dirty deed on WIKI? We need to follow the money...not the globull commie fruitcakes and useful idiots. My guess is that it ends at some Goldman Sacs/Al Gore carbon trading scheme on Wall Street.

[tubebender]

Cooking the books ping...

[panaxanax]

Wasn’t this Winston Smith’s job at the Ministry of Truth?

[PaleoBob]

The existence of Wikipedia gives one a reason to wonder what the KGB would have made of such a tool had the Sov empire not collpased. Ah, well. Remnant KGB like this guy are seemingly up to the job of propgating lie after lie after lie after lie...

[PaleoBob]

Good pick up. Big Brother lives.

[rodguy911]

You gotta wonder what the outcry would be if one of our guys rewrote 5,248 unique articles or removed 500,it would be the gallows the next morning.

[Mad Dawgg]

When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to "Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.

The Medieval Warm Period disappeared, as did criticism of the global warming orthodoxy. With the release of the Climategate Emails, the disappearing trick has been exposed.

Minister Guilefare is in charge of "rectifying" historical records in the Ministry of Truth so they will concord with Big Brother's climate change pronouncements...

(George Orwell was not an author, he was a prophet who used novels to foretell the future!)

[gwilhelm56]

**(George Orwell was not an author, he was a prophet who used novels to foretell the future!)**

DITTO!!!

[IrishCatholic]

YUP.
Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future.

Oh, by the way, your tag line.

Remind me to never eat fried chicken at your house. I mistrust your recipe.

[penelopesire]

Moma always said...'Never trust a grown man that carries a teddy bear'

[Traveler59]

Ok, IF this can be verified (just sayin'), and IF Connelley is still a professor, then this is tantamount to academic fraud. His current employer should be presented with these facts and fire him (does Churchill ring a bell).

- Traveler

[myknowledge]

I wonder if Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is a greenie?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

GROSS! Is that him? Quick! Get that man some soap and water! Oh.....and a good barber!

[penelopesire]

Yep..that’s him. LOL!!

[SouthTexas]

But it’s science, by those that have never heard of the scientific process.

[PaleoBob]

This is the IDIOT who has redefined Life As We Know It on Wikipedia-??!!?? LOL (I shoulda known.)

[purplelobster]

Here’s a quote I found from Jimmy Wales about Connolley:

“It takes a long time to deal with troublemakers,” admits Jimmy Wales, the encyclopaedia’s co-founder. “Connolley has done such amazing work and has had to deal with a fair amount of nonsense.”

[AndyJackson]

this is tantamount to academic fraud

This is academic fraud.

[penelopesire]

LOL...that teddy bear looks like it has been waterboarded and tortured to me.

[piytar]

When you go to Wikipedia now, they have a splash begging for money.

Those pukes lost all credibility a while ago. This is just the nail in the coffin. Hope they go belly-up.

[brityank]

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
      -- 1984 by George Orwell.

Why else do you think that the socialists are so entwined within the Western Civilization Education Systems?

[Leo58]

Also some dandruff shampoo. RTR!

[Lorianne]

Bump.

Thanks for posting this.

[Lorianne]

Bump.

Thanks for posting this.

[Bokababe]

"Here’s a quote I found from Jimmy Wales about Connolley: “It takes a long time to deal with troublemakers,” admits Jimmy Wales, the encyclopaedia’s co-founder. “Connolley has done such amazing work and has had to deal with a fair amount of nonsense.”

I'd love to know who has been financing Wiki until now, because Wales is currently requesting donations to keep Wiki going, ad-free

[SeattleBruce]

One reason why no college course I have taken allows Wikipedia to be cited as a Primary (?) or Secondary source.
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Funny...yet most colleges accept the AGW myth carte blanche, which we know is sourced about the same way as the debacle over there at Wikipedia.

[Parley Baer]

The lying tentacles of liberalism are everywhere. One has to remain vigilant. I would imagine the same goes for SNOPES.

[PaleoBob]

He waterboarded his teddy!

[penelopesire]

“He waterboarded his teddy!”

Fricken Ice Flow Freak!

[tubebender]

I had been warned on FR that Wikipedia couldn’t be trusted but I never dreamed it was this bad...

[MarineBrat]

I’d hold him down and shave that mop-0-pubes with a rusty spoon!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Boy he was a busy guy.

[killjoy]

One reason why no college course I have taken allows Wikipedia to be cited as a Primary (?) or Secondary source.

Wikipedia is an incredibly useful reference guide and is no more, or less, biased than any other source of information. It is up to the user to do his own fact checking. Anything free is worth what you pay for it.

[wendy1946]

I say again: Wikipedia is gigantically useful for any sort of topic for which no controversy could possibly exist. For anything involving any sort of controversy no matter how slight, wiki is utterly worthless.

[rockinqsranch]

It’s incredible to think about this persons attitude to his fellow man. How incredibly stupid, and worthless he believes other men are. His self esteem must make it quite difficult to communicate without at some point a desire to knock the shit out of him.

I’ve met his sort before. No, I didn’t knock the shit out of them as I wanted to. I just left them to themselves. It seemed they were entertained.

[SouthTexas]

Yeah, it’s pretty bad at times.

[okie01]

Lawrence Solomon has his own wikipedia page (just type his name on google with wiki after it and that takes you to his page).

Mistaken identity alert:

Lawrence Solomon is the gentleman who wrote the piece for Financial Post.

The perp, the British greenie and Wiki administrator, who re-wrote all the articles, jerked others and banned contributors was named William Connelly.

[Williams]

Are those fleas in his hair?

[BlueStateBlues]

That was stupid of me, I’ll alert an administrator to pull the post. Thanks for catching this.

Does the correct guy have a wikipedia page?

[okie01]

Does the correct guy have a wikipedia page?

I've no idea.

Guess you could go there and search.

[GodfearingTexan]

or that wears a fag looking hat and has long hippie hair.

[BlueStateBlues]

I’ll check if he has a page, but the first time on the entire thread that his first name was used was on your post.

[Canedawg]

Big Brother lives.

Even more than we know.

[okie01]

...but the first time on the entire thread that his first name was used was on your post.

You have to read the article to get the full name.