[WikiEN-l] Socialist POV

[jkelly at fas.harvard.edu]

Quoting Sam Spade <samspade.thomasjefferson at googlemail.com>:

>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=God&diff=46806965&oldid=46804989

  It is not immediately obvious to me why we shouldn't mention that most living
people believe in God as Creator in the first line of our article if that is,
in fact, the case.  Your reference, however, only shows that most Americans
believe in God as Creator, which is probably not something to include in the
first line of that article.  I also note that you wikilinked to the article on
Satanism from the mention of Dystheism.  I suggest that is crediting modern
Satanists with a much better grasp of theodicy than is the case.


> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Socialism#Unsubstantiated_claims

  This link leads to you stating baldly that Socialism is in some way
essentially racist, and a handful of editors commenting that they don't think
that most socialists are racists.  I don't understand what you want us to take
away from that conversation.  It certainly doesn't suggest to me the existence
of some kind of pro-socialism cabal on Wikipedia as implied by your email.

  I do notice that the article is absurdly long, disjointed, full of uncited
weasel words, a patchwork of various hobby-horses, and something like half of
it renders in an underlined blue font.  That makes it pretty much in line with
the rest of our top-level politics articles.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Sam_Spade
>

  When some number of your peers are suggesting that you have a blind spot when
it comes to your own beliefs and that and that you seem to think your
edit-warring is more acceptable than it is, it might be worth your time to
consider that criticism seriously.

                          Jkelly