On 20 Oct 2007 at 15:58:57 -0700, "George Herbert" george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Groups and their individual members always will want to slant Wikipedia; we're all human. We have lots of policy and precedent to deal with that. But extended, organized campaigns are another thing entirely.
...and LaRouche's group is extremely unlikely to be the last. Has the Church of Scientology been doing anything of that sort? If they haven't, they probably will eventually, since that's their style. So will lots of other groups, big and small. Eventually, there may be a whole bunch of contentious articles in this category.
It may still be a state of affairs more conducive to some semblance of NPOV than the situation with some other articles, where they're open for editing but one side of the heated dispute involving them has been labeled trolls, harrassers, etc., and banned, and anybody else expressing views anywhere on that side are subsequently called sock/meatpuppets of a banned user, or trolls republishing views of a banned user, and so only one side of the dispute is allowed to have any say at all.
On 21/10/2007, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
...and LaRouche's group is extremely unlikely to be the last. Has the Church of Scientology been doing anything of that sort? If they haven't, they probably will eventually, since that's their style.
By the metric shitload. As it happens, their past attacks on the net have created rather a lot of expert critics, many of whom are here (waves hand).
- d.