*>Steve Summit* scs at eskimo.com <wikien-l%40lists.wikimedia.org?Subject=%5BWikiEN-l%5D%20Featured%20editors%3F&In-Reply-To=9nekj3pb06dru2nonatj1tgl1re002g69i%404ax.com> * Wed Nov 14 00:28:23 UTC 2007* wrote:

*>What we are fighting here is the perception -- rightly or wrongly

held, but by nontrivial numbers of people -- that Wikipedia has a tendency to engage in suppressive and outright repressive ways towards some of its critics and towards some viewpoints that it doesn't like to hear.*

Here's the facts:

On Dec. 1, 2005, Jimbo Wales told Editor & Publisher regarding Brandt,

"I don't regard him as a valid source about anything at all... I find it hard to take him very seriously..."

Four days later Wales tells CNN,

"we are very, very responsive to complaints and concerns."

Wikipedia' s [[Seigenthaler controversy]] doesn't even mention the fact that Essjay was given oversight, or that the derogatory, self-cited, self-published material remained in Brandt's bio for a year & half, with the Foundation's full knowledge.

Basically, this is insulting to people's intelligence.

Rob Smith aka Nobs01