--- Steve Vertigo utilitymuffinresearch2@yahoo.comwrote:
Ive looked at some of the material on Disinfopedia, and think most of it too valuable to leave to it alone. I would encourage at some point an
integration
of those date to Wikipedia-- as much of it is encyclopedic. The only failing of Disinfo that I
can see so far (besides the fact that "Disinfo" doesnt bring up DisP on a Google search) is its disconnection from Wikipedia, and the division of energy that it represents.
---Sheldon Rampton sheldon.rampton@verizon.net wrote:
Sorry for not answering this sooner. I'm rather busy these days, so I haven't been reading all my email. I'm not opposed in principle to merging the Disinfopedia into Wikipedia, but I'd like to see what other Wikipedians think of the idea.
Well weve been busy here (as you probably can tell ;) and nobodys had time to comment. Since I asked you on your forum (under the name "Farben" --I forgot my DIP pass) about a DB download for DIP-- I know what you said there, that your'e currently looking into it. Concievably, we could mass upload all those articles (with a "from Disifopedia notice" and a link back to the DIP article)-- and clue WP people into the fact that many of these need a look over for NPOV-- in certain cases like Topic articles (Weapons of Mass Deception, etc. ) there would need to be a namechange, and maybe a article split/salvage operation type use of good material.
In all, aside from the occasional crass comment, from what Ive seen on DIP-- very little of it can be called outright POV-- ( Which is disturbing considering the stuff you guys tackle ;)
~S~
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