----- Forwarded message from Mitch Vogrein mvogrein@cogeco.ca -----
From: "Mitch Vogrein" mvogrein@cogeco.ca Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:43:46 -0400 To: "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" jwales@wikia.com Subject: Re: Wikipedia - Prescott Bush page
Yes, please. Or maybe you're fine with it the way it is. I understand that Wikipedia is a unique resource in that it's open to contibutors, and I wish I could, but I'm not a writer. Your email address is the single apparent address in the "contact us" page.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" jwales@wikia.com To: "Mitch Vogrein" mvogrein@cogeco.ca Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:35 AM Subject: Re: Wikipedia
Right, well, I'm not the person to talk to about directly making changes, may I forward your letter to some editors who can fix this?
Mitch Vogrein wrote:
No actually. I'm just pointing out that this author is contradicting something stated earlier in the piece and eroniously vilifying some mysterious Canadian loggers. A lot of my friends are in forestry and they don't have a malevolent bone in their body. KIDDING!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" jwales@wikia.com To: "Mitch Vogrein" mvogrein@cogeco.ca Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 9:59 AM Subject: Re: Wikipedia
Can you make an edit to fix this?
Mitch Vogrein wrote:
Your Prescott Bush page has the bullshit below on it.
The New York Herald-Tribune never referred to him as "Hitler's Financial Angel". The Tribune referred to a German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, as "Hitler's Angel," and mentioned Bush only as an employee of an investment banking firm Thyssen used in the USA. The label was ironic, since by the time the Tribune article appeared, Hitler had turned on Thyssen and imprisoned him. There has been a determined effort by Canadian bloggers, apparently connected with Lyndon LaRouche, to circulate reports that Bush
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imself was known as "Hitler's Angel".
-- "La nèfle est un fruit." - first words of 50,000th article on fr.wikipedia.org