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Google News	Tue 10th April 2007, 6:26pm Post #1
RSS Feed Reader Group: Bots Posts: 3,147 Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am Member No.: 94	Don't trust on Wikipedia (by Latuff) Bay Area Indymedia, CA - 1 hour ago by Latuff ( latuff [at] uninet.com.br ). Some of my friends wrote me about the Wikipedia article on me and I'd like to clarify some points. ...

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Daniel Brandt	Tue 10th April 2007, 8:03pm Post #2
Postmaster Group: Regulars Posts: 2,472 Joined: Fri 24th Mar 2006, 12:23am Member No.: 77	I added a comment to this guy's article. You should too. Indymedia is popular with the GenX left-of-center crowd, which probably needs to be educated about Wikipedia more than most of the population.

Vincent	Tue 10th April 2007, 8:25pm Post #3
Junior Member Group: Contributors Posts: 89 Joined: Tue 20th Mar 2007, 12:51am From: Silicon Valley, CA, USA Member No.: 1,154 WP user page - talk check - contribs	QUOTE(Daniel Brandt @ Tue 10th April 2007, 1:03pm) I added a comment to this guy's article. You should too. Indymedia is popular with the GenX left-of-center crowd, which probably needs to be educated about Wikipedia more than most of the population. Yeah, I added a comment too. I'd like to see more links to our nonprofit Web site though, but I don't want to mismanage it. I put the link for the Wikipedia Problems group on Yahoo I began. It's got 5 members now. Vincent

thekohser	Wed 11th April 2007, 7:48pm Post #4
Member Group: Regulars Posts: 10,274 Joined: Thu 1st Feb 2007, 10:21pm Member No.: 911	QUOTE(Daniel Brandt @ Tue 10th April 2007, 4:03pm) I added a comment to this guy's article. You should too. My comments have risen to a level of excellence that could only be described as a smothering, ten-ton sandwich of Truth and Logic. I'm expecially proud of my bacon vs. chicken analogy. I encourage anyone to go back to the article comments at this time -- especially if you'll join the pile-on using your real name: Don't trust on Wikipedia (by Latuff) Greg

Somey	Wed 11th April 2007, 8:01pm Post #5
Can't actually moderate Group: Moderators Posts: 11,814 Joined: Sat 17th Jun 2006, 7:47pm From: Dreamland Member No.: 275	Fascinating... "Mandeep M" sounds like it might be Mantanweissland or one of his crew, but to name Slimmy and Katefan0 like that isn't very "Wikipedian" of him, is it? Odd that the pro-Wikipedia commenter would be the one to turn indybay.org into a potential "attack site."

thekohser	Wed 11th April 2007, 8:16pm Post #6
Member Group: Regulars Posts: 10,274 Joined: Thu 1st Feb 2007, 10:21pm Member No.: 911	QUOTE(Somey @ Wed 11th April 2007, 4:01pm) "Mandeep M" sounds like it might be Mantanweissland or one of his crew... I was actually thinking that he seems to parrot the Guy "JzG" Chapman rhetoric about how I don't understand what Wikipedia "is". But now look at us -- we're "stalking" by even speculating who Mandeep could be. Greg

Unrepentant Vandal	Wed 11th April 2007, 8:31pm Post #7
Über Member Group: Regulars Posts: 866 Joined: Wed 6th Sep 2006, 12:38pm Member No.: 394	Indymedia makes Wikipedia look reliable.

Somey	Wed 11th April 2007, 8:35pm Post #8
Can't actually moderate Group: Moderators Posts: 11,814 Joined: Sat 17th Jun 2006, 7:47pm From: Dreamland Member No.: 275	QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 11th April 2007, 3:16pm) But now look at us -- we're "stalking" by even speculating who Mandeep could be. But it's important, though. Here's someone who's obviously pro-Wikipedia, parrots the Company Line™, and yet he adds yet another website to the Dennybot's WP:BADSITES list by adding the real names of two female admins, completely gratuitously, to this guy's indybay.org article/blog/whatever. Whose fault is that? I suspect they'll claim it's ours, because he presumably got the names from here in the first place. I'd say something mean like, "I guess they know now how it feels to be a BLP subject when yet another "scraping" occurs, don't they," but "they" still don't know. It's just those two women, and for the rest, it's "naaah, that could never happen to me." And in fact, it almost certainly couldn't!

thekohser	Wed 11th April 2007, 9:02pm Post #9
Member Group: Regulars Posts: 10,274 Joined: Thu 1st Feb 2007, 10:21pm Member No.: 911	QUOTE(Somey @ Wed 11th April 2007, 4:35pm) ...he adds yet another website to the Dennybot's WP:BADSITES list by adding the real names of two female admins, completely gratuitously, to this guy's indybay.org article/blog/whatever. Indybay.org has 190 external links from Wikipedia. That's going to be a lot of clean-up, warning, and blocking! Greg

Jonny Cache	Wed 11th April 2007, 9:25pm Post #10
τα δε μοι παθήματα μαθήματα γέγονε Group: Contributors Posts: 5,100 Joined: Sat 9th Sep 2006, 1:52am Member No.: 398 WP user page - talk check - contribs	QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 11th April 2007, 5:02pm) QUOTE(Somey @ Wed 11th April 2007, 4:35pm) he adds yet another website to the Dennybot's WP:BADSITES list by adding the real names of two female admins, completely gratuitously, to this guy's indybay.org article/blog/whatever. Indybay.org has 190 external links from Wikipedia. That's going to be a lot of clean-up, warning, and blocking! Greg I created this Intruder Revert Template (IRT) so that people can help out. I think that maybe this is the answer — just wrap Wikipedia in a Big Rubber Room so that nothing from the outside world can disturb it — well, disturb it any further. Jonny This post has been edited by Jonny Cache: Wed 11th April 2007, 9:26pm

anon1234	Wed 11th April 2007, 10:18pm Post #11
Senior Member Group: Inactive Posts: 401 Joined: Sat 8th Apr 2006, 2:40am Member No.: 111	QUOTE(Unrepentant Vandal @ Wed 11th April 2007, 8:31pm) Indymedia makes Wikipedia look reliable. Incredibly true. It's hard to even know if it is Latuff.

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