Posted on 01/21/2025 8:09:15 PM PST by grundle
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
January 21, 2025
https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1881912002987315297
1) There was talk page consensus to have a single sentence about Van Jones resigning after it was revealed that he was a self described “communist” who blamed the 9-11 attacks on the U.S. government. Why should I be punished for adding that info to the article?
2) Please explain why you think the article should mention Obama’s actions against offshore drilling, but not his actions in favor of offshore drilling.
3) Also please explain why you think citing Obama’s actions against offshore drilling, without simultaneously citing his actions in favor of offshore drilling, does not violate NPOV, which states, “All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing fairly, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources. This is non-negotiable and expected of all articles and all editors.”
4) How is it not noteworthy that Obama’s choice to head the “Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools” has an extensive history of illegal drug use?
5) If there’s going to be a section on Obama’s claims of transparency, why shouldn’t the section mention cases where Obama was heavily non-transparent?
6) How is Obama’s nationalization of General Motors, and firing of its CEO, not notable to the section on Obama’s economic policy?
7) How is the questioning of the constitutionality of Obama’s czars by two different Senators from Obama’s own party, not relevant to the section on those czars?
Grundle2600 (talk) 18:20, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Interacting with WickedPedos is tantamount to intentionaly stepping into a pile of dog poop instead of stepping over it...😎
Yeah, good luck. There are numerous times I’ve tried to correct bias and just wrong information on wikipedia. The deck is stacked against most people.
Wikipedia has leaned left, no, fallen over since day-one.
A number of years ago Wikipedia copied a history article that I had written for a website and copied and pasted it onto theirs without my permission or even crediting me as the author.
On the section on the Comanche Indians at the Council House Fight in 1840, it had a comment, “In his book Los Comanches, historian Stanley Noyes notes, “[a] violation of a council represented an almost unthinkable degree of perfidy. The council was sacred not only to the [Comanche] People, but [also] to all Native Americans”.”
I added a documented fact with a source that in 1836 the Comanches attacked Fort Parker. They showed up with a white flag and used a parlay as a ruse.
My documented and historically accurate comment was quickly removed. The sacred Holy Native Americans NEVER used treachery under a flag of truce to attack.... even though they FREQUENTLY did.
Wikipedia sucks.
I’m convinced Wikipedia is just another CIA psyop against the general public. I used to donate money, long ago, but never again. There’s already enough budget for counterintelligence operations against citizens.
“Wikipedia has leaned left, no, fallen over since day-one.”
It’s okay for scientific stuff like looking up sphagnum moss or something. I use it for discographies and geography.
AI
It has to be killing them to have to mention the Gulf of America.
“Relationship with Wikipedia
In 2022, in a recent “personal appeal” displayed in an advertising banner on Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, one of the founders, emphasized that “Wikipedia is not for sale.” This statement highlights the non-profit nature of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), a non-profit organization based in California that owns intellectual property assets, such as the Wikipedia name and branding. However, the WMF does not own or control the global communities that maintain the site.”
Funding:
Tides Foundation
Arcadia Fund
Google
Amazon
Facebook
George Soros
Sloan Foundation
Open Society Institute
Ford Foundation
Omidyar Network
Hewlett Foundation
Stanton Foundation
Brin Wojcicki Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
federal grants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation
“I’m convinced Wikipedia is just another CIA psyop against the general public.”
Absolutely...
Read how many people died due to Chernobyl. What a joke!
I mean, how many according to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is a total leftist shxthole website. Not sure why anyone would ever use it.
It is good for non-controversial subjects, but that’s about it.
Where does Wiki get its money...?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I’d like to know why it is that most every time I google a subject, the first result is usually from Wikipedia?
Bizarre AUDIO edit on the Wikipedia page for the Potomac collision. It almost seems depectively editged.
Compare the Wikipoedia 62 second clip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Potomac_River_mid-air_collision#Accident with the actual tower recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiOybe-NJHk
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