On 13/11/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
geni wrote:
On 11/13/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/rcurry_20061113.html
Why? Wikipedia appears to have taken the facts and ignored the opinions so I don't see a problem.
If that is the case, then fine. That's why I wanted people to look into it.
Perhaps you are not familiar with the history of this topic and Rex Curry. My concern is that he has managed somehow to push his POV and original research agenda into Wikipedia, and that he is using his success in doing so to bolster his own cause.
Oh, god, *him*. Fascist-salute guy.
Summary for those unaware: RC thinks he has a conclusive theory that the Pledge of Allegiance is irretrievably linked to the Nazi salute, and the Nazis were godless commies, or something like that. (My eyes tend to screw up after the first few paras of inpenetrable prose) He spams places wildly with it. (My personal favourite: he will review vaguely-related books on Amazon, saying "interesting, but has failed to notice recent research that [...textdump...]"
He's spammed us before, but I thought we were shot of him. Gah.
As to Geni's "keep the facts, junk the opinion", I have a strong suspicion that his "facts" aren't even remotely facts - if we're citing this guy *anywhere* in any of our articles I'd advise taking an extremely prejudiced chainsaw to those.