[WikiEN-l] NPOV is a big lie

[FT2]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Bill Carter <billdeancarter at yahoo.com>wrote:

> (Snip) I offer you facts about one striking instance in which journalist
> Alan Cabal has been maligned over and over again.



Actually much of your post was mis-targeted rhetoric on NPOV. I counted  6
times you quoted David Gerard saying the same point (which is dissected
above).You did discuss Alan Cabal... yet each time it seemed the format was
this:

"Alan Cabal is horribly treated <cite>, and so here's /another/ quote of
David Gerard saying he sees NPOV as a major innovation of Wikipedia".

One could be forgiven for believing your post wasn't really about Alan at
all.



FT2



> Who knows how many other
> Wikipedia articles are being treated in such a way, and only if people
> come forward will we get a good idea.
>
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> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] NPOV is a big lie
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> This is (when stripped down) basically a "straw man" post. It uses quotes
> by
> others saying "A"as a rhetoric device in a question where the issue isn't
> "A" at all, and in effect, conflates the two to try and make its point. It
> then presents its point as made when in fact it hasn't made it at all, nor
> even contains any attempt to do so. It's either sloppy logic or a rhetoric
> device. Either way it has no place in honest communication, except as a
> mistake to be retracted when spotted.
>
> <snip>
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