This blog consists of comments from my real blog, http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/, which I don't want to publish there. Plus some other stuff convenient to place here. And its becoming a convenient place for me to dump my comments on other blogs so I can find them again.
William Connolley says:
ReplyDeleteAugust 21, 2014 at 1:32 AM
You’re fast. That example was added only a few days ago. Its almost like you did it, or someone did it and then told you. No? Seems like a pretty bizarre coincidence otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_techniques&diff=next&oldid=617361147
(I was wrong about the fast; I slipped a month in the date stamp. Nothing much else happened there. In the follow-up http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/08/censorship-alive-and-well-at-wikipedia/ I said):
ReplyDeleteWilliam Connolley says:
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August 22, 2014 at 1:02 PM
> how is deleting an entry a compromise?
I didn’t delete an entry. I deleted an example. Here’s the edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_techniques&diff=prev&oldid=622164121 so you can see for yourself. As to accepting compromise, I was happy to accept https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_techniques&diff=622251537&oldid=622248324
Notice that others, not at all related to me, have removed other loaded examples from the same article (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_techniques&diff=622287682&oldid=622279716, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Propaganda_techniques&diff=622372813&oldid=622368498).
> From what I know about your relationship with Wikipedia
All you know about this, you’ve got from “skeptic” blogs, which aren’t reliable. See for example http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2010/01/04/a-childs-garden-of-wikipedia-p/