[WikiEN-l] JzG's banning Private Musings regarding BADSITES debate

[William Pietri]

Fred Bauder wrote:
>>
>> If I understand rightly, [[Robert Black (professor)]] is a respected
>> Scottish law prof who is from Lockerbie, who has taken a great interest
>> in the Lockerbie case, and was involved in setting up the Lockerbie
>> trials of the Libyan agents.
>>
>> In response to recent activity in the case, in early July he set up a
>> blog to discuss it. We briefly mentioned the blog and added a link to
>> it. That link stayed in place until a few days ago, when he gave a
>> one-sentence mention of the allegations that SV "systematically altered"
>>  the Wikipedia Lockerbie articles, mentioning what some claim is her
>> true  name. He doesn't claim that they are true, just that they are
>> interesting.
>>     
>
> Here's some more garbage from the page the respected professor linked to:
>
> "The most curious reaction to the news of SlimVirgin's identity was
> demonstrated by the English-language media: apart from personal blogs and
> web forums, not a single word appeared in any of the major media! Previous
> scandals such the Seigenthaler case, exposing Essjay, and the WikiScanner
> program by Virgil Griffith, received wide coverage. But there was silence
> about SlimVirgin, comparable to the silence on classic themes such as UFOs
> and the assassination of John F. Kennedy."
>
> [rest of quote snipped]
>
> How about them apples...? I've always wondered about that disc business.
>   

For those who haven't read the blog, just to be clear, Professor Black 
only linked to the page containing this, and didn't mention UFOs or 
JFK's assassination in his one-sentence summary. The only part that 
appears to interest him is that a name already known to him in the 
context of the Lockerbie investigation may also be a Wikipedia editor 
involved in editing articles related to the Lockerbie bombing.

Fred, are you seriously suggesting that we should only mention a 
biography subject's blog when everything they link to meets your 
standards? That seems like an unreasonably high bar.

If you're suggesting something else, it would be helpful if you said 
what it is.

William


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