Surely that wasn't the only reason he got banned, unless he did it following several warnings....
On 3/10/2011 7:11 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: >> On 09/03/2011 23:24, Tony Sidaway wrote: >>> Think Progress, a progressive blog run by the Center for American >>> Progress, today ran a story about a hired PR firm creating sock puppet >>> accounts to clean up Wikipedia articles for the Koch brothers. >>> >>> If true, this will only get messier as the Presidential election >>> campaign 2012 heats up. >>> >>> >>> http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/09/koch-wikipedia-sock-puppet/ >>> >> What is an "airbush"? I think we should be told. >> >> Seriously, a blog item so poorly written proof-read is hard to treat as >> authoritative. [[Charles G. Koch]] does apparently need work. >> >> Charles > Our article "Airbrush" does not include information on the use of > "airbrush" as a metaphor, although it has a section on the technique as > used to retouch photographs. In this context airbushing the Koch brothers > article, emphasizing the positive and de-emphasizing the negative, would > produce the kind of pablum point of view editors would like to serve us > up about other controversial figures and practices. > > I'm surprised to see that our Wiktionary article also does not treat > airbrush as a metaphor. See > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/en/wiki/airbrush We understand it > well, it is point of view editing. Airbrushing has a connotation of doing > so carefully and subtly. I'm afraid this editor failed in that respect; > he seems to have been quite bold, announcing his conflict of interest in > his first edit. He is now banned, and I cannot say there was not a good > basis for that, but he was hardly subtle. And a good deal of what he did > was on the talk page of the articles, which is what we ask. > > Fred > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
