On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Bill Carter billdeancarter@yahoo.comwrote:
(Snip) I offer you facts about one striking instance in which journalist Alan Cabal has been maligned over and over again.
Actually much of your post was mis-targeted rhetoric on NPOV. I counted 6 times you quoted David Gerard saying the same point (which is dissected above).You did discuss Alan Cabal... yet each time it seemed the format was this:
"Alan Cabal is horribly treated <cite>, and so here's /another/ quote of David Gerard saying he sees NPOV as a major innovation of Wikipedia".
One could be forgiven for believing your post wasn't really about Alan at all.
FT2
Who knows how many other Wikipedia articles are being treated in such a way, and only if people come forward will we get a good idea.
From: FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 7:16:31 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] NPOV is a big lie
This is (when stripped down) basically a "straw man" post. It uses quotes by others saying "A"as a rhetoric device in a question where the issue isn't "A" at all, and in effect, conflates the two to try and make its point. It then presents its point as made when in fact it hasn't made it at all, nor even contains any attempt to do so. It's either sloppy logic or a rhetoric device. Either way it has no place in honest communication, except as a mistake to be retracted when spotted.
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