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.