On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Bill Carter <billdeancar...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> (Snip) I offer you facts about one striking instance in which journalist > Alan Cabal has been maligned over and over again. Actually much of your post was mis-targeted rhetoric on NPOV. I counted 6 times you quoted David Gerard saying the same point (which is dissected above).You did discuss Alan Cabal... yet each time it seemed the format was this: "Alan Cabal is horribly treated <cite>, and so here's /another/ quote of David Gerard saying he sees NPOV as a major innovation of Wikipedia". One could be forgiven for believing your post wasn't really about Alan at all. FT2 > Who knows how many other > Wikipedia articles are being treated in such a way, and only if people > come forward will we get a good idea. > > > > ________________________________ > From: FT2 <ft2.w...@gmail.com> > To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 7:16:31 AM > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] NPOV is a big lie > > This is (when stripped down) basically a "straw man" post. It uses quotes > by > others saying "A"as a rhetoric device in a question where the issue isn't > "A" at all, and in effect, conflates the two to try and make its point. It > then presents its point as made when in fact it hasn't made it at all, nor > even contains any attempt to do so. It's either sloppy logic or a rhetoric > device. Either way it has no place in honest communication, except as a > mistake to be retracted when spotted. > > <snip> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l