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Wikipropaganda - Spinning green.
National Review Online ^ | July 08, 2008 | Lawrence Solomon

Posted on 07/08/2008 10:45:21 AM PDT by neverdem

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It should be old news, but it can't hurt. Don't use Wikipedia if it is remotely involved with politics.
1 posted on 07/08/2008 10:45:22 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Politics or ANY other sort of controversy, scientific or otherwise. Wiki is only useful for topics for which no controversy of any sort could possibly exist, how does a two-stroke diesel engine work etc. etc.


2 posted on 07/08/2008 10:48:08 AM PDT by wendy1946
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To: neverdem

Is there a conservative alternative, or a censored version, so my kids can use something decent without bias?


3 posted on 07/08/2008 10:54:38 AM PDT by montag813
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To: wendy1946
how does a two-stroke diesel engine work

By raping Mother Gaia of her live blood and poisoning her atmosphere.

4 posted on 07/08/2008 10:56:07 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: neverdem
Wiki means edit. So anyone can edit it. So naturally the Environmental nut bags will silence all debate by editing out the facts. Par for the course...
5 posted on 07/08/2008 10:56:14 AM PDT by Sprite518
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To: neverdem

Many conservatives have recently taken to repeating that the global warming hoax has been exposed and that even the casual observer realizes it’s not real.

As we can now see, the globalist earth worshippers, along with their willling accomplices the Democrats, have only ratcheted up the propaganda and the mainstream public is lapping it up like good subjects.


6 posted on 07/08/2008 10:57:45 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: neverdem

bttt


7 posted on 07/08/2008 10:59:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: neverdem
I'd go further, don't use Wikipedia at all. Teachers and Professors should make the use of Wikipedia an automatic F.

Not only is Wikipedia a Marxist and Liberal group-think tank, it is extremely inaccurate to boot.

We need to encourage everyone to boycott Wikipedia and refuse to give them any credibility at all.

8 posted on 07/08/2008 11:03:19 AM PDT by freedomwarrior998
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To: montag813

There’s conservapedia, but it has a clear hard-right bias, and those who run it blatantly promote their agendas through the site.


9 posted on 07/08/2008 11:09:06 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: montag813

http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page


10 posted on 07/08/2008 11:09:42 AM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: montag813

If there were a “conservative” version then it would be “biased”.

A neutral version would offer ALL arguments for and against.

And it is one of the things about wikipedia that makes it interesting; conspiracies and rumors (about apolitical subjects) are frequently given at least a mention even if they are debunked. There are some topics elsewhere that never acknowledge lingering or even dispelled rumors.


11 posted on 07/08/2008 11:10:32 AM PDT by weegee (Maybe 143 days wasnÂ’t enough experience.)
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To: neverdem
We should just forget about trying to battle the Wikipedia gatekeepers on their own turf, we'll never get our message through that way.

The answer is that we need an alternative to Wikipedia that is similar in nature, but presents the viewpoints from our perspective, and then WE can control who the gatekeepers are.

12 posted on 07/08/2008 11:12:38 AM PDT by jpl ("Present." - Barack Obama)
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To: freedomwarrior998

I am taking courses right now, and the syllabus clearly states that Wikipedia is not permitted as a source. Anyone doing so will have their grade decreased substantially on that assignment.


13 posted on 07/08/2008 11:14:14 AM PDT by erikm88
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To: subterfuge
Marxists start out tolerated in idea houses like coffeehouses and classrooms and as those places crumble and decay for the long-term inanity of amoral discussions they move into politics and bureaucracy -- for Wikipedia is a public domain bureaucracy (!) -- upon failing there they move into bloody handed revolution and general sociopathy, anarchy and chaos.

We are blessed in the US that our intellectual heritage has protected us from allowing Marxist success politically. They have succeeded here and there, but so far the nature of US institutions is such that the Marxists make the organization incompetent and distracting but otherwise benign. We may however now have moved to a stage of Marxist infection never experienced in Russia or China. That as the federal and state bureaucracies have now failed because of the Marxist influence, we are about to switch into a despotic tyranny rather than have a revolution into one. We see in the much faster evolutionary dynamic of the bureaucracy Wikipedian what the outcome might be under an Obama and his angelic Michelle.

And when they can't kill an idea, or ideals, they will come to kill those who hold them publicly, and then those hold them privately, and then those who might hold them or how knows someone ....

Look to Chavez, to Castro, to Palestine and Lebanon for the examples of outcomes.

14 posted on 07/08/2008 11:24:29 AM PDT by bvw
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To: neverdem
In researching the "rediscovered" Italian Baroque composer Arcangelo Corelli, I came across several Wikipedia references that indicated he was homosexual.

No such references were cited, so I edited the page and also removed him from the category listing of "famous gays and lesbians" or whatever it was.

Wikipedia is good for some things but many have targeted it as an outlet for their lies.

15 posted on 07/08/2008 11:38:33 AM PDT by ikka
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To: neverdem

Never mind the politics. I let my nephew look up “bear” on there and he had to read a homosexual definition that made me furious and I wanted to puke. I would personally like to meet a wiki “editor”.


16 posted on 07/08/2008 11:43:55 AM PDT by freeplancer
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To: wendy1946

Wiki is only useful until the nazi editors who run it decide they don’t like what is written. If some day they decide a 2-stroke diesel engine should work differently, that’s what the Wiki entry will say.


17 posted on 07/08/2008 11:47:21 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: freedomwarrior998

I have been amazed to see assignments handed out to high school and college students in which they were REQUIRED to use Wikipedia as a source. I agree with you - If you cite Wikipedia as a source in a paper, you fail.


18 posted on 07/08/2008 12:11:44 PM PDT by ZGuy
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To: neverdem
I corrected an error on a wikipedia page — a formula for the volume of a geometric figure was incorrect — my correction was immediatly erased, and I was slandered.

That was the first and last time I tried to contribute wikipedia.

By the way, the name “wikipedia” is derived from the Hawaiian word ‘wiki’ which means “quick”. I believe that wiki is a bastardization of “quick, quick” by pidgin speaking illiterate natives who's language is so primitive they can't even mimic civilized speech. The guy who chose that as the name must have been a real heal to make prominent such an embarrassing shortcoming of a (snicker) “proud peoples”.

(snicker)

19 posted on 07/08/2008 12:29:22 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Within my experience so far at least, the nazis can’t get worked up over dry technical topics to do anything with them.


20 posted on 07/08/2008 12:56:16 PM PDT by wendy1946
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