Giacomo M-Z wrote: > Nothing of substance done to refute the Hattersley rubbish. Jimbo claimed to > be in conversation with the paper - in truth, the paper dismissed him and > Wikipedia's PR trembled from the sidelines. > > Giano > Let's look at what you (apparently) did. You contacted Greg Kohs, a long-time Wikipedia critic who pops up all over the Web commenting nastily on WP. Let's see what use he made of your outburst:
"It seems that my original concern for Giles Hattersley was that I found it hard to believe that he would deliberately lie in print. User:Giano corresponded with me this afternoon, and he distinctly believed that Hattersley was "a liar", and he worked to create an article to "prove" this little point. I cautioned Giano to slow down and consider that this more likely is a misunderstanding of some kind. And, it turns out that Hattersley is assigning to a Times editor the blame for this claim that an English Wikipedia article contained errors about him. It does all get ironed out, thankfully. But, not before a pro-Wikipedia editor uses Wikipedia as a revenge platform ..." This is at a Telegraph blog comment page: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/shane_richmond/blog/2009/02/08/giles_hattersleys_disappearing_wikipedia_entry?com_num=20&com_pg=2 In my interpretation you simply supplied an arch-critic of Wikipedia - one of the small "Schadenfreude Gang" whose day is made every time that a scandal hits WP - with good material to support the thesis that BLP is an empty letter, and Wikipedians will create articles about people to embarrass them. One test for you and your competence to issue lectures on PR: rearrange the words "productive" and "counter" into a well known hyphenated phrase. That may be hard, so here it is in terms of architecture where your competence is not doubted: WP people live in a glass house and should not throw stones. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
