--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > For the past few days, I've been contributing to the wikipedia > entry on Transcendental > > Meditation. Boy, is that fun in dysfunctional sort of way. Between > Peter, Andrew Skolnick and > > myself, we've managed to completely rewrite the whole thing about > 10x over. > > > > http://www.wikipedia.org keyword: "transcendental meditation". > Click on the "history" tab to > > see what I mean... > > Omigod, what a disaster. Skolnick's going to turn > the entry into a rerun of his JAMA article if he's not > stopped. > > I'm tempted to put in a paragraph or three on the JAMA > episode and point out that one of the people making > "contributions" to the entry is the author of the JAMA > muckraking piece and that he was sued by TM for it. >
its immaterial to the way Wikipedia works. As long as Andrew can back up his rhetoric with references to external sources, he's within guidelines. > There ought to be *some* way of getting a person > barred from editing Wikipedia entries when it can be > demonstrated that they have a personal interesting in > and a history of smearing whatever the entry is about. > Or at the very least, there ought to be some way of > identifying such a person's "contributions" in the > main entry. > > (Laswon, please do me a flavor: Don't let Peter Klutz > keep putting in the phrase "comprises of"--it isn't > English. You corrected it once, and he put it back in; > then you or someone else corrected it again--but he's > liable to put it back if you're not careful. Minor > point, but the phrase is really illiterate.) Peter has a habit of deleting entire sections without vetting with the rest of the contributors so I don't see me as having any influence on the situation, save that I possibly made it worse by challenging Andrew on a point or two. He got angry after that and started quoting 3rd hand sources within the body of the article. The nastier, the better, IMHO. > > You're doing terrific work, Lawson, but if Andrew has > time on his hands, countering his distortions and > misstatements is going to be a full-time job. > Eh. Selective quoting is what Wiki is all about in these controversial areas, I suspect. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
