[WikiEN-l] to Jimmy Wales re:Chinese firewall

Sun May 14 17:58:52 UTC 2006

Freedom of speech is always a good thing. Having governments or governmental
type bodies that try to control and oppress speech is always a bad thing.
Thanks, Jimbo for what you said. ~ Maggie User:thewolfstar ~ blocked
indefinitely for openly defying cabal admins and their spies. ps Please see
your talk page and note an entire week was deleted from April 1-21,
2006</wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_7>
where I posted a comment trying to save Wikipedia
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in peace and justice for the wildthings,
Margie Laupheimer  http://earthhopenetwork.net/
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This comment was posted on your talk page in the last week of April. The entire last week of April has been deleted completely. I and many others who dissent the strong left-wing, communist socialist or strong right-wing
dominance in Wikipedia and heavy-handed banning of dissenting or objecting editors get blocked repeatedly or banned. I am banned indefinitely - done in secret, page protected, and my unblock request removed. This whole place they call Wikipedia Community is a horrible scary place. just amended for below. Maggie User:thewolfstar

Hi Jimbo,
I am a researcher who loves Wikipedia and up until recently, used it frequently in her research. Because of the following I am afraid to rely on the neutrality in many articles there now.

I joined Wiki March 22 and have had a horrendous experience dealing with a group of editors (that includes some admins). The many bizarre events that have occurred, started when I made an admittedly clumsy edit on [[The Democratic Party (of the United States)]] article. This article reads like an ad for the Democratic Party. It took a week to get changes made but some did get made, due to my perseverance. I will admit that. But I am stronger and more persevering than most. Most editors who wish to add nonbiased edits to political articles, get discouraged, repeatedly blocked or banned altogether by the group's admins. The work on verifying and neutralizing this article is far from done.

There are quite a few who have the same difficulty, amazingly with the same group of editors. The longer I stay at Wiki, the huger this group becomes. I have gathered strong evidence and can show, that a large group of editors are controlling political and controversial articles on Wikipedia. They harass, insult, ignore, maneuver and conspire to remove any editing of their articles, that attempt to improve their articles with a neutral point of view. They are often editors who use original content in their articles. It doesn't take much looking around to see that most, if not all, of this group are left-wing leaning editors. ( I am neither left or right wing.) I do believe in the neutrality of articles in an encyclopedia, and the importance of them being fact based.

All day I have been blocked by an admin (KillerChihuahua) I have admittedly taunted these people back all day but I am in jail and have no recourse to defend myself. I just found your blog. I am being blocked illegally by Wiki Blocking page rules, I believe. They are threatening me with a long block or ban- because I haven't shut up.

At the risk of asserting the existence of a conspiracy, an accusation you probably have heard before, I will say the following.

Does this group form a cabal or conspiracy? From what I gather, yes and no. I don't think many of it's members are aware that they are part of a larger conspiracy, and that they are being used by the conspirators, to do their dirty work. (Though the members tend to consist of nasty vindictive pedants who write rfc's, etc.) Is the larger conspirator group ''the Democratic Party'', or a faction of the the Democratic Party? Possibly. I can't make this claim for sure. But in any case, due to their underhanded and mean efforts, it is nonetheless almost impossible to make improving changes to their articles, cabal or not. Furthermore, the articles that are guarded wih iron gates are the ones that have a biased point of view towards the Democrats and against everyone else. Many  articles that represent any view that differs from the left-wing are similarly guarded.

I fear for Wikipedia's reputation. I'm afraid that as a direct result of this group's ironclad policies, and the articles that can be now found on Wikipedia, other groups, outside Wikipdia with an opposing view or having objections, may files law suits on Wikipedia, thereby destroying it financially. I believe this  to be a legitimate concern. Again, I love Wikipedia and if this were to happen I would be personally devastated.

If you are interested in urls that show evidence of my claims I would be more than happy to provide them. I have many such urls, too many for this entry to your blog.

In respect and sincere concern for the future integrity and existence of Wikipedia,<br>and thanks for reading <br>
''Maggie''thewolfstar

thewolfstar at gmail.com

Margie Laupheimer
59 Hickory Hill Road
Kerhonkson, NY 12446

845-626-2815

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