----- Original Message ----- From: "Skyring" skyring@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How to sabotage Wikipedia, for SEO spammers
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 2:18 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.bluehatseo.com/how-to-overthrow-a-wikipedia-result/
What an odious person.
- d.
Well, it depends on your viewpoint. From his point of view, the idea is to rank a Wikipedia page down so a given page rises above it, and he provides tactics on how to do this. The fact that this damages Wikipedia is irrelevant.
I'm glad they're not manipulating the ratings themselves. I'm more than happy to put a project's rating template in and give it the best of my judgement, and I've never argued with someone else's rating, except upward. I did not add the CompSci template to [[gossip protocol]], and I am not finished with it, either. It won't get a high rating for importance, because it is only theory.
In fact, within Wikipedia you get a lot of similar activity from POV-warriors. Their aim is to present polemic rather than information. A minor example of this can be found at Alex Jones (radio host). The guy's a nut of the first order, but he's got a string of defenders, often anons, who remove any criticism of their hero. Of course Wikipedia is part of the conspiracy to discredit him and these guys are just setting the record strait.
There is so much of a record in a radio host that won't matter in two years that I wouldn't pay much attention. Shock jock, newscaster, opinion columnist -- don't care. That guy who does "The Rest of The Story" will persist beyond his death.
I'm sure everyone on this list has their own favorite example article, where POV ducklings nibble away at objectivity, hoping to remain under the radar.
Weasel words [[ad populum]] and other stilts (clues about POV) go in and out of [[prion]], and there does not seem to be much to know about prions. A great many people can conceive of self-modification with only protein. I cannot, and it is out of my field, so I do not really know. Maybe I should get Brown's book. I wonder if it's in the library. I got into wikipedia, because of [[prion]] in the Oxford dictionary of Phrase and Fable. I want to take out every mention of "hypothesis" from [[prion]], except ones in a section header.