--- "Daniel R. Tobias" dan@tobias.name wrote:
Thanks for posting.
The funniest part is someone (talking a lot like the typical admin lost in wiki jargon) claiming that all such changes will be reverted. Of course, they rarely are. This is a common strategy and pretty much describes any and every major company and political page on wikipedia.
Not to mention the supposedly NPOV abortion page that gets mentioned in the NPOV article. It's more general concept is: * add lots of information and picture * obscure the disagreeable information with overload * bury objectionables in stats and meaningless (aka, nuetral) phrases
I.e., push "negativity" (any thing that disagrees with your POV) out of site or marginalize as if it's just opinions, such as under a criticism header near the end but not so near that it's visible from the bottom. Highlight the information that agrees with your POV. See Dick Cheney, Hummers, Alberto Gonzales, Halliburton, and extremism like the ABC Hypothesis and fetal pain.
Wikipedia should thank Jessica for highlighting the technique so admins and editors have a clue as to what's influencing things like the pretty infoboxes that highlight only branding, Web sites, numbers, and photos that support the PR objectives. Why do so many start off like a resume describing company history, who started it, when, how, products, etc.?
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