Wikipedia and Deepak Chopra: Open-Source Character Assassination
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-castle/wikipedia-deepak-chopra-o_b_8449394.html
Worth reading this entire article.
The body of editors who are dominating Deepak Chopra's biography
page are a dozen or so skeptics* who are so extreme in their
views that they resort to online activism, many of whom consider
the concept of spirituality or a mind-body connection to be a
threat to human intelligence. They consider Deepak Chopra to be
the embodiment of these concepts and so treat his biography as
an opportunity to explain how foolish and dangerous his beliefs
are. These editors are no more empowered than any other
volunteer editor, but their ideological zeal and willingness to
viciously attack any opposing editor has driven off most
impartial editors. After all, Wikipedia is 100% volunteer, so
why would someone voluntarily spend their time being called a
moron and facing endless opposition to every neutral edit? There
is no one to report to, as a collaborative platform Wikipedia
has no formal management structure, even when collaboration
turns into mob mentality.
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