As we become one of the central institutions of global culture, people justifiably feel that their "take" on things ought to be included. Iridology is Irismeister's thing. Despite our banning of Iridology for sustained POV editing and edit warring over the matter we continue to have an article on Iridology which begins as follows:
"'''Iridology''' is a form of [[alternative medicine]] in which patterns, colors and other characteristics of stromal fibers of the [[Iris (anatomy)|iris]] are examined for information about a patient's health. Practitioners match their observations to ''iris charts'' which divide the iris into many zones believed to correspond to specific parts of the [[human body]]. Little scientific evidence exists confirming any such link between the aspect of the iris and a patient's state of health."
What it doesn't say, as Irismeister would have it, is that iridology is the best thing since sliced bread. He did not achieve his goal of dominating the article with his viewpoint which, while represented, takes its place alongside extensive criticisms. Now, as a professional iridologist, he has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.
Fred
From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com Reply-To: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com, English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:45:26 +0000 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: email from Irismeister
I have no idea why Irismeister is sending this to me in particular. Forwarded without comment, hard as it was to resist.
- d.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Irismeister danjipa@freemail.iris-ward.com Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:54:56 GMT Subject: Wikipedia e-mail To: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
As per your choice of banning me for one year, and our "agreement" concerning such an unwise move, please find attached the text of my first legal action. This was started during the day of my ban. And the fronts of the huge legal battle that has started against your dictatorship are multiple and wide.
Ten individual FTC Consumer Complaint Forms have been filed on behalf of prominent public figures nominally, against each of the offending sysops on the Wikipedia list.