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> Will has a new vendetta
Herschelkrustofsky
post Thu 14th April 2011, 10:08pm
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An alert reader has pointed out to me that WB has been on a 36-hour editing jag, removing innocuous cites and external links to the Constitution Society (T-H-L-K-D). Maybe SV is coaching him for the WP triathlon. At any rate, he is purging the project of any citations to the CS website, which is amusingly hypocritical, because when he is using a questionable source in order to push POV, he will point to the number of times it is used at WP as a measure of its credibility as a source. He is also removing all the external links to it. This is questionable, because, as I understand it, WP frowns on using a self-published website as a source, but does not discourage including it in external links. Correct me if I'm wrong.

But beyond that, he is also inserting innuendo into the CS article at Wikipedia:
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The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the society as a "'Patriot' Group".[8] [hidden in footnote: "Listing here does not imply that the groups themselves advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities, or are racist." Your mileage may vary.]


To be fair, the founder of the CS is Jon Roland (T-C-L-K-R-D) , who has apparently attempted to use WP for self-promotion, although probably not on a scale anywhere near to that of Will's bosom pals Cberlet and Dking. Will set him straight on that. But there's something else going on here -- Will doesn't put in a 36 hour marathon for just any Tom, Dick or Harry. What set him off?
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