On 3/2/07, Rob Smith nobs03@gmail.com wrote:
Brandt was the victim of a drive by smear aimed at editors who inserted properly sourced criticism to Brandt in another article. I kept silent for 1 year, but the situation never resolved itself. It only got worse. Numerous innocents now have been caught in the crossfire in this dispute between Brandt & Berlet that goes back to 1991.
Nobs, everything you say about this is not only insulting, but completely factually inaccurate. Here is the article after Brandt and I had finished working on it, and just before I deleted it because he said he didn't want it. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Brandt&oldid=25628592 It's clearly not a "drive-by smear," and if you knew anything about my editing, you'd know that's an absurd thing to say. And it has nothing whatsoever to do with Chip Berlet.
What happened then is that Brandt started talking about the deleted article on blogs, and as a result a blogger turned up and re-created it. Had Brandt kept quiet, the chances are it would have stayed deleted.
'Nuff said, hopefully.
Sarah