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1 posted on 12/25/2013 1:01:05 PM PST by Awestruck
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Did they say anything horrible about me personally?


2 posted on 12/25/2013 1:03:51 PM PST by Tax-chick ("Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love." ~Pope Francis)
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Hit it was a {{pov-check|date=December 2013}} tag in the Edit section. That’ll make the libs mad.


3 posted on 12/25/2013 1:04:05 PM PST by Olog-hai
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....but yet, still they come......*smiles*


4 posted on 12/25/2013 1:05:35 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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I’ll say it again, one person can’t do anything about a wiki page. You’d have to get 30 - 50 people, a wiki edit war with one person against the usual 30, the one guy just gets banned.


6 posted on 12/25/2013 1:08:11 PM PST by varmintman
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We have a wiki entry? I pretty much only look up bands, movies and TV shows.


8 posted on 12/25/2013 1:09:40 PM PST by discostu (I don't meme well.)
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Have you noticed what loud mouth, emotional, self serving, mal-developed, gas bags say about you and others that is beyond divorced from reality but, more about them being on their own island screaming insanity at a wall?

They are lunatics.

What they say is mostly projected anger about their short comings and a violation of their utopian ideals which cannot exist because of scientific laws.

FK em.

Merry Christmas!!! The Savior is born.


9 posted on 12/25/2013 1:09:47 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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I looked it over pretty carefully, and the posting does tend to emphasize what the author(s) feel are our shortcomings.

There is a LOT more material on FR than there is on DU. The author(s) of that entry note that DU is sort of conspiracy central for a lot of really nutty ideas, but they only mention a couple of the worst ones, and omit details around, for instance Karl Rove's "impending indictment" (remember "Fitzmas"?), or how they reacted to Dick Cheney accidentally shooting his buddy (talk about a long, nutty thread).

The insanity found on DU would fill the Indian Ocean, perhaps the Atlantic Ocean, but there's little note of it.

12 posted on 12/25/2013 1:13:31 PM PST by Hardastarboard (The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
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Wikipedia is basically leftist. No point trying to fix their entry on FR, because it will just go bad again.

Actually, I find Wiki very useful on most things, as long as there’s not a political issue. You can even look up facts about politicians—names of wives and children, for instance, or dates of service. But you can’t trust the politics, EVER.


17 posted on 12/25/2013 1:26:19 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Why would you even go there and read wht those left wing dirt bags write?


19 posted on 12/25/2013 1:30:22 PM PST by dalereed
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Actually, I was surprised at how much influence is attributed to FR!

A REAL hit piece would have denigrated FR’s influence.


23 posted on 12/25/2013 1:46:46 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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I use wiki for general purpose information.

I would not expect a left leaning organization to have anything good to say about those that may disagree with their world view.

As long as you understand there is a bias in Wiki world, it can be a useful resource.


29 posted on 12/25/2013 1:49:45 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I do not doubt that our climate changes. I only doubt that anything man does has any effect.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freerepublic

Wow, that’s quite a history, if accurate. Is any/some/none/not much/most of it true, or just leftist BS drivel? It’s well before my time here, so I have no real point of comparison.


32 posted on 12/25/2013 2:03:32 PM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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Overall, I'd say the article is pretty neutral. I have a few minor quibbles but nothing serious.

I'm surprised the article left out some FR firsts where we've beaten the press on getting a story out.

The most memorable of these for me was the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia as it burned to a crisp while flying over California to Dallas. More here Reporting on the trouble starts here.

44 posted on 12/25/2013 2:34:36 PM PST by upchuck (My Internet addiction is so bad... it's alt of ctrl.)
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There should have been an entire section on Laz.


47 posted on 12/25/2013 2:39:22 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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52 posted on 12/25/2013 2:52:02 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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People from FR tried to edit the Wikipedia article several years ago, but the liberal editors there reverted it to the liberal view.


59 posted on 12/25/2013 3:03:12 PM PST by Theodore R.
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Founded in September 1996 as a sole proprietorship by Founder, Chairman and President James C. "Jim" Robinson

I found a huge error...everybody knows Jim Thompson runs Free Republic...

66 posted on 12/25/2013 3:27:02 PM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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Wikipedia is a encyclopedia of cultural reflection in the relative terms of the day.......
Its just the friggin Internets!!
71 posted on 12/25/2013 3:45:42 PM PST by right way right (What's it gonna take? (guillotines?))
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Never thought of looking there,
The section on Martin O Malley and Bob Ehrlich (Maryland) is interesting given what transpired here between them.


104 posted on 12/25/2013 5:36:27 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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Why bother? ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSMBC, etc. all do hit pieces on FR. Wikipedia is known as a lib site.


112 posted on 12/25/2013 6:06:42 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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