Ken Arromdee wrote: > Now has a Slashdot story: > > http://slashdot.org/submission/1137140/Climategate-spreads-to-Wikipedia > > Which links to two articles: > http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=62e1c98e-01ed-4c55-bf3d-5078af9cb409 > http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/05/03/who-is-william-connolley-solomon.aspx > > At a minimum this sounds like conflict of interest, and worse if any of these > accusations are true (although the article counts are probably misreporting, > and I bet they include all articles he deleted and all banned users regardless > of associations with climate change). > > Erm, you wouldn't be jumping to any conclusions here? And misinterpreting what we mean by "conflict of interest"? Which does not equate to academic involvement in a topic (no longer William's situation, by the way?) Or neglecting quite a substantial history of dispute resolution down the years, which at minimum involves people who actually understand policy looking at actual edits?
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