Hi there,
most of you know me by my user id, AshLin or have met me in the
WikiConference wars.
I must ask editor's to not get duly influenced by one editor's response.
If Frustrated Editor has issues, let him take Fowler&fowler to ANI or to
India Noticeboard. Fowler&fowler has on the whole maintained a neutral,
representative and high quality "India." He has gone to great trouble to
get highly reliable sources, wonderful images and good language on India
article.
Frustrated Editor is completely anonymous, while that may be permitted on
Wikipedia, he is not visible to stand by his statements to this community,
he remains cloaked in anonymity, he has NOT given his own user id.
Statements like India is "It is heavily biased and doesn't mention the
fact that India is the oldest and the oldest continuing civilization in
history" is completely POV, nor does he give reliable source citations to
support his claim. The "emerging superpower" crap is another of the urban
legends people want to add.
Only one example is given & stated out of context. Fowler has shortened it
as per the tone of the article. If the user feels so concerned about it,
let him reveal himself on India Noticeboard & article talk page & take it
up for discussing. BTW canvassing is against Wikipedia policies too.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Pradeep Mohandas <
pradeep.mohandas(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
hi,
I got this email from a user. I have pointed him/her to the mailing list
and am sharing it here.
warm regards,
Pradeep
User:Prad2609
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Frankly Idontcare* <idontcarefrankly(a)yahoo.com>
Date: 22 November 2011 18:50
Subject: Blatant misinformation and vandalism of India articles on
Wikipedia
To: "pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com" <pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com>
Dear Pradeep Mohandas,
I got your e-mail address from your user page on
wikipedia.<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User%3aPrad2609> I
understand that you were involved in the Wikipedia conference that was held
in Mumbai in November 2011. This should mean that you are part of
Wikipedia. I have to bring to your attention, an issue, that has been
bothering me from a long time.
There are a few administrators on Wikipedia who "legally vandalise" pages
related to India and block anyone who disagrees with their point of view.
(POV) For example, if you view the
"India<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India>"
article on Wikipedia, you will notice that the introduction does not do
justice to what is arguably the greatest civilization in world history. It
is heavily biased and doesn't mention the fact that India is the oldest and
the oldest continuing civilization in history. It doesn't mention the fact
that India is an emerging superpower. The page is being constantly
monitored and vandalised by a group of users/administrators who seem to
have an inherent bias towards India. I tried editing the page, but was
unable to do so because of the following users:
Fowler&fowler<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aFowler%26fowler>
, Saravask <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aSaravask>,
Quigley<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aQuigley>ey>,
Elockid <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockid>and
ElockidAlternate<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockidAlternate>te>.
Of all the mentioned users,
Fowler&fowler<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aFowler%26fowler>
and Elockid <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockid> (
ElockidAlternate <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockidAlternate> is
his alternate account) are by FAR, the worst. they seem to have something
against India and Indians.
Fowler&fowler<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aFowler%26fowler> has
continually uploaded offensive images in the demographics and economy
sectionof the India article and made disparaging remarks about India and
Indians! He is an administrator!!
Moving on to Elockid <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockid>and
ElockidAlternate <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockidAlternate> (same
user with another account). Go through the Economic History of India
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_India>article. Under
GDP Estimate, the following sentence was deleted by
ElockidAlternate<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockidAlternate>
:
"*According to economic historian Angus Maddison in his book ''The World
Economy: A Millennial Perspective'', India had the world's largest economy
from the first to the 18th century, with a (32.9%) share of world [[GDP]]
in the 1st century to (28.9%) in 1000 AD, and in 1700 AD with (24.4%).*"
<ref>The World Economy: Historical Statistics, Angus Maddison</ref>"
and this sentence was replaced by:
*"According to economic historian Angus Maddison in his book Contours of
the world economy, 1-2030 AD: essays in macro-economic history, India had
the world's largest economy during the years 1 AD and 1000 AD"*
*
*
Now, let me tell you how this is wrong on SO many levels:
1) The first statement is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT and the book clearly
mentions that India had the largest economy from the first to the
eighteenth century!
2) In the book " Contours of the world economy", the author clearly
mentions that India had the largest economy from the first to the 16th
century and in the 17th century! the sentence uploaded by Elockid
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockid>
or
ElockidAlternate<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3aElockidAlternate> is
wrong!
I have tried to correct this error and I got blocked for being a
"sockpuppet", even though i am not! I tried reporting on the Vandalism
noticeboard, but i got blocked from editing the vandalism noticeboard!!! Is
there anyway I can alert Jimmy Wales about the constant anti - Indian
editing by some administrators on Wikipedia? Also, is there any way you can correct
these edits, cuz a lot of people may be exposed to this misinformation!
Please get back to me.
Regards,
Frustrated editor!
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