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Lawrence Solomon: Wikipedia’s climate doctor-Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles
Financial Post (Canada) ^ | December 19, 2009 | Lawrence Solomon

Posted on 12/19/2009 5:17:11 PM PST by theBuckwheat

... All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.

The Medieval Warm Period disappeared, as did criticism of the global warming orthodoxy. With the release of the Climategate Emails, the disappearing trick has been exposed. The glorious Medieval Warm Period will remain in the history books, perhaps with an asterisk to describe how a band of zealots once tried to make it disappear...

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; climatechange; climategate; globallukewarming; globalwarming; guilefare; lawrencesolomon; notbreaking; wikipedia
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The advocates of global warming have been waging GUILEFARE against the truth, our prosperity and our liberty in attempting to create their secular utopia funded seizing by OUR wealth.
1 posted on 12/19/2009 5:17:12 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: theBuckwheat

Cute typo. ... by seizing OUR wealth!


2 posted on 12/19/2009 5:18:28 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: theBuckwheat

This is pretty hugh!


3 posted on 12/19/2009 5:21:32 PM PST by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: theBuckwheat

They do the same thing with regard to Intelligent Design.


4 posted on 12/19/2009 5:23:21 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: theBuckwheat

One reason why no college course I have taken allows Wikipedia to be cited as a Primary (?) or Secondary source.


5 posted on 12/19/2009 5:23:56 PM PST by Fury
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To: theBuckwheat; STARWISE; SE Mom; maggief

Ping!

Who was paying him to do his dirty deed on WIKI? We need to follow the money...not the globull commie fruitcakes and useful idiots. My guess is that it ends at some Goldman Sacs/Al Gore carbon trading scheme on Wall Street.


6 posted on 12/19/2009 5:25:47 PM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: theBuckwheat; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SierraWasp; editor-surveyor; SouthTexas

Cooking the books ping...


7 posted on 12/19/2009 5:28:49 PM PST by tubebender (Some minds are like concrete Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: theBuckwheat

Wasn’t this Winston Smith’s job at the Ministry of Truth?


8 posted on 12/19/2009 5:28:49 PM PST by panaxanax (It's time to start plucking the chickens and boiling the tar.)
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To: theBuckwheat

The existence of Wikipedia gives one a reason to wonder what the KGB would have made of such a tool had the Sov empire not collpased. Ah, well. Remnant KGB like this guy are seemingly up to the job of propgating lie after lie after lie after lie...


9 posted on 12/19/2009 5:32:07 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: panaxanax

Good pick up. Big Brother lives.


10 posted on 12/19/2009 5:33:27 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: theBuckwheat
You gotta wonder what the outcry would be if one of our guys rewrote 5,248 unique articles or removed 500,it would be the gallows the next morning.
11 posted on 12/19/2009 5:34:28 PM PST by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to "Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.

The Medieval Warm Period disappeared, as did criticism of the global warming orthodoxy. With the release of the Climategate Emails, the disappearing trick has been exposed.

Minister Guilefare is in charge of "rectifying" historical records in the Ministry of Truth so they will concord with Big Brother's climate change pronouncements...

(George Orwell was not an author, he was a prophet who used novels to foretell the future!)

12 posted on 12/19/2009 5:35:48 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: Mad Dawgg

**(George Orwell was not an author, he was a prophet who used novels to foretell the future!)**

DITTO!!!


13 posted on 12/19/2009 5:44:13 PM PST by gwilhelm56 (Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. ")
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To: panaxanax

YUP.
Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future.

Oh, by the way, your tag line.

Remind me to never eat fried chicken at your house. I mistrust your recipe.


14 posted on 12/19/2009 5:44:20 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: PaleoBob
Moma always said...'Never trust a grown man that carries a teddy bear'
15 posted on 12/19/2009 5:51:25 PM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: theBuckwheat
Ok, IF this can be verified (just sayin'), and IF Connelley is still a professor, then this is tantamount to academic fraud. His current employer should be presented with these facts and fire him (does Churchill ring a bell).

- Traveler

16 posted on 12/19/2009 5:51:27 PM PST by Traveler59 (Truth is a journey, not a destination.)
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To: theBuckwheat

I wonder if Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is a greenie?


17 posted on 12/19/2009 5:52:42 PM PST by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: penelopesire

GROSS! Is that him? Quick! Get that man some soap and water! Oh.....and a good barber!


18 posted on 12/19/2009 5:53:54 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Yep..that’s him. LOL!!


19 posted on 12/19/2009 5:55:34 PM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: tubebender

But it’s science, by those that have never heard of the scientific process.


20 posted on 12/19/2009 5:56:53 PM PST by SouthTexas (Charge global warmers under RICO.)
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