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To: Jamestown1630
> Editing one’s own Wiki page is tricky; and there will always be someone ready to step in and edit it again. There are even rather militant ‘teams’ involved in editing various pages to suit a particular agenda: https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-the-guerilla-sceptics-are-undermining-wikipedias-neutrality/2013/10/23

No argument there. I view one's own Wikipedia bio page (if one has one) as a golden opportunity for everything from libel to identity theft. The price of a public bio is constant vigilance.

I'm nowhere near important or notorious enough to warrant a bio page.

OTOH, I've been a contributor to Wikipedia for 20 years. I was more active 2005-2010 than in the last 15 -- I authored a couple pages, edited a couple others. I have a user page if anyone cares to look it up. (That's not a regular Wiki page, it's in the subsection of Wikipedia users. I check it from time to time; nobody including me has touched it in a decade, in fact I should update it, LOL.)

Despite the ubiquitous liberal bias on Wikipedia, I have found it possible to argue with those who disliked something I put on a page; that's what the "Talk" pages are for. Sometimes I prevailed, other times not. Such is life in the fast lane. I suppose if one considered one's own bio page a hopeless battle, one could mark it for deletion. Wikipedia is not the only database game in town, although it's arguably one of the most widely known.

16 posted on 08/30/2025 3:22:03 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: dayglored

As time goes on, I trust it less and less on many subjects. I guess it’s still ok for ‘settled’ science (if such actually exists) and for a lot of history; but it’s useless for anything the least controversial, including politics and very recent history.

I’m especially interested in some things that might be considered ‘fringe’ science but which I believe have value regardless; and the ‘guerillas’ have completely destroyed Wiki for most of that. They are hell-bent on shutting down any speculative thought in those areas. (Rupert Sheldrake and bernard Haisch are cases in point.)

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-24-oe-haisch24-story.html


20 posted on 08/30/2025 4:42:13 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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