----- Original Message ----
From: Mathias Schindler <neubau(a)presroi.de>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 11 April, 2006 9:36:55 AM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] FYI: Daily Record: Wikipedia site filled with major mistakes
In a summary, it's a nice little rant with some
pointers to articles
that might need cleanup (or NPOV protection from dear Warren)
Hmm...in the bit about Barry Goldwater he seems to be a disgruntled person not familiar
with our policies on citing sources and our normal venues for article discussion (and is
rude and obnoxious about it, to boot). After having his addition removed from the article,
he (Warren Boroson) writes:
"[A Wikipedia editor] never contacted me directly, as he should have; he just
high-handedly dismissed my note, going on and on like a nutcase about: Where's the
evidence? Well, if that yahoo had written to me, as he should have, I would have replied:
I was a primary source. I was the magazine's managing editor."
It seems he's referring to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Barry_Goldwater#Libel_and_sanity
In which case, yes -- he needs to provide a verifiable source (we can't take his word
for it), and the talk page is the appropriate page to discuss it.
Best of all, he closes his piece with:
"I suspect that whoever edited my contribution had no professional editing
experience whatsoever. I suspect, in fact, that if he went to college, he must have
majored in."
-- Matt
[[User:Matt Crypto]]