Sheldon Rampton wrote:
Take a look at it yourself. Here's the verbatim passage from Ed's article on "Sun Myung Moon/tax case":
The government offered to drop all the charges if Rev. Moon would give up his green card (permanent resident visa) and agree never to visit the US again. Rev. Moon preferred to go to trial, professing his belief in the fairness of American justice but saying that he would not have been prosecuted if "his skin had been white or his religion Episcopalian."
Reference, please, for the government's offer and the quote (Sorry, I could not find documentation; it's a story circulated among us UC members -- Ed Poor .)
It's clear from this that Ed could *not* find any documentation to support the assertions he made in the first paragraph. And since when is it proper form for Wikipedians to insert themselves directly into articles with first-person, signed asides? I thought that sort of thing belonged on the Talk page.
It does, generally. In the very old days, this is how the tradition of talk pages got started, i.e. to move 'meta-commentary' from the article pages, so that the articles themselves always read like encyclopedia articles.
I'm not going to make these edits, because I'm not interested in working on articles about Rev. Moon or the Unification Church. The point I'm making is simply that I find it hypocritical for Ed to accuse *me* of dishonesty and bias over an article on global warming that I had barely touched, when Ed himself has made no effort to apply NPOV in his articles about his own church.
Well, like I say, I think Ed will make things right with you. You're both good, you're both kind, and whatever disagreements you may have about politics or Moon or whatever, I think we all can agree that NPOV is the way to go, and that saying things that are hurtful to others is not beneficial to our project.
There are at least two views of how wikipedia articles should be written -- the competitive view and the co-operative view. Ed is merely (and correctly, I think) advocating for the co-operative view.
Actions speak louder than words. How is it "co-operative" for Ed to look for pretexts with which to publicly impugn my character?
Well, if that's what happened, then it isn't co-operative. But, Ed's been around here for awhile, and I've seen him in action. Like I say, he'll make things right with you.
--Jimbo