[WikiEN-l] "should not be written by an interested party"

[Thommandel at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/3/2006 1:50:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
jwales at wikia.com writes:

Mark  Gallagher wrote:
> And then you get people who'll insist that an article  MUST remain the 
> way it is simply because its subject doesn't want it  to. 

Such people should be beaten hard with the nearest available  cluebat.

> Moderation in all things.

Ok you are right.   Such people should be beaten _moderately_ with the
nearest available  cluebat. ;-)



What kind of statement is this? Are you joking or are you serious?  I  am not 
a Wikipedian, nor do I have any desire to become one. I happened across  the 
plasma cosmology page and was dismayed by the incorrect and misinformed  
information presented there. When I tried to make corrections, which is how this  
thing is supposed to work out, all my efforts were reverted. I have been  
insulted repeatedly, blocked twice because I suggested that such behavior would  
amount to legal action in the real world,  now I have been blanked because  my 
citations on the talk page are beyond, I presume, the attention span of the  
big bang group in charge of the plasma cosmology page who don't like what I have 
 done.  Wikipedia is NOT produced by the people. the people may make the  
initial contributions, but it soon taken over by the powers to be. And if those  
admins are challenged, they resort to personal attacks and intimidation. At  
least that has been my experience.  When I raised the question of "ethics"  on 
this list, the reply was "A good wikipedian can do what he damn well  
pleases."  A few agreed and that was the end of ethics. Not all Wikireaders  are 
stupid, and when a cancer is not only allowed but supported by admins, then  it is 
only a matter of time. And that time will come.  You can call me a  crank and 
infer a pathology all you want, I know what I am without relying on  some high 
school student's opinion.  It is sad though when the one person  who had a 
wonderful idea and saw it though fails to lift himself above the  lowest. 
 
Tommy mandel