Comments on: Co-Floundering in a Sea of M.U.D. http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20090408/co-floundering-in-a-sea-of-mud/ It's only a website... it's only a website... Mon, 20 May 2013 02:54:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Jon Awbrey http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20090408/co-floundering-in-a-sea-of-mud/#comment-1930 Jon Awbrey Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:44:27 +0000 http://wikipediareview.com/blog/?p=250#comment-1930 Like I keep trying to tell ya, it's called: <a href="http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=23681&view=findpost&p=166894" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia's SlimCherryPickens Of Convenient Secondary Sources (WP:SCPOCSS)</a> Jon Like I keep trying to tell ya, it’s called:

Wikipedia’s SlimCherryPickens Of Convenient Secondary Sources (WP:SCPOCSS)

Jon

]]> By: Paul Wehage http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20090408/co-floundering-in-a-sea-of-mud/#comment-1923 Paul Wehage Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:34:16 +0000 http://wikipediareview.com/blog/?p=250#comment-1923 The specifics of the spat between Wales and Sanger are not that important: what is at the core is the desire to rewrite the early history of Wikipedia using a string of PR pieces (ie the Hotpress article that started this ruckus, among others) which seem to be aimed at planting information which will then get picked up by the mainstream press. This informationn will then be considered to be in "reliable sources" and will therefore be considered "true" by Wikipedia standards. The manipulation of the media in this type of action is masterful, but the implications of what this means to Society and to History as a whole is worrying, to say the least. The specifics of the spat between Wales and Sanger are not that important: what is at the core is the desire to rewrite the early history of Wikipedia using a string of PR pieces (ie the Hotpress article that started this ruckus, among others) which seem to be aimed at planting information which will then get picked up by the mainstream press. This informationn will then be considered to be in “reliable sources” and will therefore be considered “true” by Wikipedia standards.

The manipulation of the media in this type of action is masterful, but the implications of what this means to Society and to History as a whole is worrying, to say the least.

]]> By: Selina http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20090408/co-floundering-in-a-sea-of-mud/#comment-1920 Selina Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:56:07 +0000 http://wikipediareview.com/blog/?p=250#comment-1920 Bravo, Somey, for having the calm and resolve to keep prowling the Yahoo! thread, to find that gem about overcoming the advantages of entrenched competitors with proprietary content. We see that behind the "free content curtain" there was simply a man shooting for PageRank. Bravo, Somey, for having the calm and resolve to keep prowling the Yahoo! thread, to find that gem about overcoming the advantages of entrenched competitors with proprietary content.

We see that behind the “free content curtain” there was simply a man shooting for PageRank.

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