[WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

[Bob the Wikipedian]

Surely that wasn't the only reason he got banned, unless he did it 
following several warnings....

On 3/10/2011 7:11 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
>> On 09/03/2011 23:24, Tony Sidaway wrote:
>>> Think Progress, a progressive blog run by the Center for American
>>> Progress, today ran a story about a hired PR firm creating sock puppet
>>> accounts to clean up Wikipedia articles for the Koch brothers.
>>>
>>> If true, this will only get messier as the Presidential election
>>> campaign 2012 heats up.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/09/koch-wikipedia-sock-puppet/
>>>
>> What is an "airbush"? I think we should be told.
>>
>> Seriously, a blog item so poorly written proof-read is hard to treat as
>> authoritative. [[Charles G. Koch]] does apparently need work.
>>
>> Charles
> Our article "Airbrush" does not include information on the use of
> "airbrush" as a metaphor, although it has a section on the technique as
> used to retouch photographs. In this context airbushing the Koch brothers
> article, emphasizing the positive and de-emphasizing the negative, would
> produce the kind of pablum point of view editors would like to serve us
> up about other controversial figures and practices.
>
> I'm surprised to see that our Wiktionary article also does not treat
> airbrush as a metaphor. See
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/en/wiki/airbrush We understand it
> well, it is point of view editing. Airbrushing has a connotation of doing
> so carefully and subtly. I'm afraid this editor failed in that respect;
> he seems to have been quite bold, announcing his conflict of interest in
> his first edit. He is now banned, and I cannot say there was not a good
> basis for that, but he was hardly subtle. And a good deal of what he did
> was on the talk page of the articles, which is what we ask.
>
> Fred
>
>
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