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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

What do you know about a certain Scott Grayban (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sgrayban and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sgrayban) it appears that he is a retired Sargeant (US Airforce) and software developer who is also perhaps a hacker (http://www.acky.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t420.html)

Right now he is on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba) busy trying to prove that the Cuban government is a democracy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cuba), threatening to ban and banning to get his way. Such actions are inconsistent with his background.

Does anybody know anything about Scott Grayban

El Jigue 4-15-06


53 posted on 04/15/2006 2:01:12 PM PDT by El Jigue (Who is Scott Grayban)
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To: El Jigue
I wish I could tell you, but the truth is that I'm not that familiar with the insiders at Wikipedia, and the things that I have learned about them I've gleaned from this website.

I do know that there are a few Wikipedians who are also Protest Warriors-I know most of them-who try their best to combat the lies, misinformation, and general ignorance that predominates over there.

It seems like a Sisyphean task, if you ask me.

I've edited a few egregiously wrong Wikis-one on Ralph Ellison, which was riddled with errors, including the absurd assertion that he was a critical part of the Harlem Renaissance-but trying to alter the ingrained Marxist tendencies of Wikipedia seems to be a fruitless endeavor.

I think a better course is to expose that website for what it is, and attempt to educate people who are misled into believing that it is the equivalent of a normal, standard encyclopedia.

54 posted on 04/15/2006 3:01:04 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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