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Why exactly is this being taken so seriously? The article in question
seems rather silly to me. Only someone with serious paranoia issues
would attach such importance to the possibility that Annan's father
was a freemason. Frankly, the inuendo that something sinister is going
on ("Anna is a secret freemason," sayeth Reading Between the Lines,
"he plans to take over the world! And Wikipedia editors are in league
with him!") is not to be taken seriously. There is plenty of silly
nonesense out there, and as Wikipedia grows, so will the silly
nonsense about Wikipedia. Why bother responding to such irrationality?

On 3/18/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> ==Libel against Wikipedia and Jimbo==
>
> Hi, an article defaming Wikipedia is spreading across the internet.
> [http://thailandesl.chazzsongs.net/internet.wiki.htm You can read it
> at the bottom of this link.] The article's author, [[Judi McLeod]]
> implies that Wikipedia is connected to and takes its orders from
> [[Kofi Annan]]. She also claims that Wikipedia removed information
> from the [[Kofi Annan]] page at Kofi Annan's request. According to
> her, the article had claimed Annan's father was a freemason.
>
> Wiki contributors went through all 542 revisions of the [[Kofi Annan]]
> article and found no mention of freemasonry whatsoever. There is an
> ongoing discussion about this at [[talk:Kofi Annan]]
>
> Senior sys-op and Wiki news reporter [[user:Zanimum|Zanimum]] wrote
> her two letters asking for proof but she refuses to respond. She also
> refuses to correct the errors or withdraw the [[Canada Free Press]]
> article.
>
> Can anybody advise us on the next step to take? Ignoring them isn't an
> option since they have written several error-ridden articles about
> Wikipedia. No doubt there will be more.
>
> This is very frustrating and upsetting. We have gone out of our way to
> address her concerns but she gives us no credit. Both
> [[user:Homeontherange|Homeontherange]] and I have made sure that
> unproven assertions and inflammatory statements are quickly taken out
> of the article whenever they appear. I myself made it a priority
> recently to include positive details such as the journalism award
> McLeod won in 1983. And yet she calls us "wicked pedia".
> --[[User:Cyberboomer|Cyberboomer]] 21:34, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
> Guy (JzG)
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