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...

[SkyPilot]

Wikipedia scrubs Obama eligibility Mention of citizenship issues deleted in minutes, 'offending' users banned - 8 March 09

Wikipedia, the online "free encyclopedia" mega-site written and edited entirely by its users, has been deleting within minutes any mention of eligibility issues surrounding Barack Obama's presidency, with administrators kicking off anyone who writes about the subject, WND has learned. A perusal through Obama's current Wikipedia entry finds a heavily guarded, mostly glowing biography about the U.S. president. Some of Obama's most controversial past affiliations, including with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former Weathermen terrorist Bill Ayers, are not once mentioned, even though those associations received much news media attention and served as dominant themes during the presidential elections last year. Also completely lacking is any mention of the well-publicized concerns surrounding Obama's eligibility to serve as commander-in-chief. Indeed, multiple times, Wikipedia users who wrote about the eligibility issues had their entries deleted almost immediately and were banned from re-posting any material on the website for three days. In one example, one Wikipedia user – acting as part of WND's investigation – added the following to Obama's page: "There have been some doubts about whether Obama was born in the U.S. after the politician refused to release to the public a carbon copy of his birth certificate and amid claims from his relatives he may have been born in Kenya. Numerous lawsuits have been filed petitioning Obama to release his birth certificate, but most suits have been thrown out by the courts." As is required on the online encyclopedia, that entry was backed up by third-party media articles, citing the Chicago Tribune and WorldNetDaily.com The entry was posted on Feb. 24, at 6:16 p.m. EST. Just three minutes later, the entry was removed by a Wikipedia administrator, claiming the posting violated the websites rules against "fringe" material.

[Brugmansian]

He attempts to defend himself here:

I am all powerful (part two)

At least I think its him. He does link back to his Wiki page.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Don’t believe in Establishment Official so-called Science, it’s nothing but lies and nonsense to forward evil agendas.

[pepsionice]

Ask yourself this...who has time to rewrite 5,428 articles? Some guy on some kind of government research project? And when did he have time to do the actual project?

Something here smells awful suspicious. I’d like to know who was paying his normal paycheck? A university or corporation? And if so....they allow some guy to basically dedicate all his work time to this kind of fetish? (notice, I didn’t even call it a fascination or hobby or job).

There’s something else to this story and how this guy had the time to accomplish all of this.

[gwilhelm56]

**Ask yourself this...who has time to rewrite 5,428 articles?**

Rewriting Wiki probably WAS GOVERNMENT RESEARCH with a hefty grant (after all, we fund ACORN).

coming with govt research and grants comes.. college age Intern and Research Assistants. You can do a lot of rewriting with a dozen college kids, who don’t know better, and ...CUT AND PASTE!!

I deal with these liberal academic types all the time... they do all kinds of things that most “REAL PEOPLE” would never believe as possible.

Possible SURE.. Probable.. possibly...

[Future Useless Eater]

Until about the mid-90s of last century the Medieval Warm Period was for climate researchers an undisputed fact. Therefore in the first progress report of the IPCC from 1990 on page 202, there was the graphics 7c [12], in which the Medieval Warm Period was portrayed as clearly warmer than the present. However, the existence of this warm period became quickly a thorn in the side for the scientists responsible.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/29/the-medieval-warm-period-a-global-phenonmena-unprecedented-warming-or-unprecedented-data-manipulation/