On Dec 4, 2007 12:14 AM, Ral315 <en.ral315(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 3, 2007 10:20 PM,
<joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu> wrote:
Well, that was a less than NPOV little hit piece.
Did they even bother
asking
anyone for an opinion who didn't have a negative opinion of the whole
thing?
This piece reads so badly I'm almost inclined to wonder if the primary
source
wasn't some very strongly anti-Durova editor. But of course that
couldn't
happen because editors who frown on secrecy would
never try to do that,
nor try
to use a newspaper to get their way. Frak'n ridiculous.
To call The Register a newspaper is quite a stretch (even if they are,
technically). Their business model is to piss off as many people as
possible in order to increase page views and ad revenue. They've found
that
Wikipedians get pissed off quite frequently, and decided to go with it on
a
regular basis.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/17/jimmy_wales_shot_dead_says_wikipedi…
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/06/wikipedia_otrs_volunteers/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/02/wikipedia_fraud/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/20/wikipedia_aphrodites_araldite/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/18/wales_sanger_interviews/
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Sincerely,
Ral315
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ral315
While I see your point, Ral315, as I pointed out to jossi earlier this
evening, we have well over 1000 links to this "rag" on Wikipedia right now
(I think it comes out to 1835). If it is that bad a source, then there's
some major cleaning up to do. I doubt you'll manage to convince all ov the
editors on all of the articles where it is used that it is that bad of a
source. I'll agree it comes out a bit like a hit piece, but I've seen far
worse in "reliable" sources on similar subjects. It would be interesting to
know if the Foundation or Jimbo were asked to comment though, which is one
thing the article doesn't say.
Risker
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