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1 posted on 12/02/2011 3:04:11 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Jimmy Wales is being treated to the leftist Wiki bias we’ve all complained about for years.


2 posted on 12/02/2011 3:12:14 PM PST by MeganC (No way in Hell am I voting for Mitt Romney. Not now, not ever. Deal with it.)
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To: grundle
Oops! I had meant to say, "Jimbo criticized the article for not including."
3 posted on 12/02/2011 3:14:16 PM PST by grundle
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Well isn’t that sweet. He says the article is a disaster but he doesn’t have time to fix it. So it just stays a disaster?

Liberals. If they could think, they’d be conservatives.

[Or did he propose a secret fix not mentioned in the quoted section? If not, my comment stands. Why point out a problem, and then offer no plan for fixing it?]


4 posted on 12/02/2011 3:17:18 PM PST by Fantasywriter
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To: grundle
He should have records of the edit history of the entry.

He should start by publishing that, and linking to it from Wikipedia entry on socialists, so people can see for themselves what they're about.

9 posted on 12/02/2011 3:35:01 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: grundle

How is it that one of the contributors had the power to zot you? That seems odd.

I actually am impressed that the founder decided to intervene.

It also is interesting how Wiki is supposed to be the pipple’s encyclopedia but it’s obviously really a dictatorship, with Jimbo presumably getting the last word if he so chooses. A nice example of “democratic centralism”.


11 posted on 12/02/2011 3:54:13 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: grundle

User Rd232 must be Sean Penn.


13 posted on 12/02/2011 4:14:24 PM PST by DFG (Proud Barbarian)
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To: grundle

bump


14 posted on 12/02/2011 4:17:58 PM PST by Tribune7 (Perry or Santorum (rickrolling))
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Just for your info Rd232 is not me!


16 posted on 12/02/2011 4:19:36 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: grundle

Thank you for clarifying your experience with an essay on Wiki. Too bad. Wiki has wonderful potential and an amazing code. But everyone knows that it cannot be trusted.


22 posted on 12/02/2011 6:29:49 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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Jimbo Wales (the founder of wikipedia) just reinserted my info back into the article!!!

This is what he added:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez&action=historysubmit&diff=464215115&oldid=464071566

Since 2003, Chavez has been setting strict price controls on food, and these price controls have been causing shortages and hoarding.[260] In January 2008, Chavez ordered the military to seize 750 tons of food that sellers were illegally trying to smuggle across the border to sell for higher prices than what was legal in Venezuela.[261] In February 2009, Chavez ordered the military to temporarily seize control of all the rice processing plants in the country and force them to produce at full capacity, which he claimed they had been avoiding in response to the price caps.[262] In May 2010, Chavez ordered the military to seize 120 tons of food from Empresas Polar.[263] In March 2009, Chavez set minimum production quotas for 12 basic foods that were subject to price controls, including white rice, cooking oil, coffee, sugar, powdered milk, cheese, and tomato sauce. Business leaders and food producers claimed that the government was forcing them to produce this food at a loss.[264] Chávez has nationalized many large farms. Chávez said of the farmland, "The land is not private. It is the property of the state." Some of the farmland that had been productive while under private ownership is now idle under government ownership, and some of the farm equipment sits gathering dust. As a result, food production has fallen substantially. One farmer, referring to the government officials overseeing the land redistribution, stated, "These people know nothing about agriculture."[265] Chávez has seized many supermarkets from their owners. Under government ownership, the shelves in these supermarkets are often empty.[266] In 2010, after the government nationalized the port at Puerto Cabello, more than 120,000 tons of food sat rotting at the port.[267] In May 2010, after price controls caused shortages of beef, at least 40 butchers were arrested, and some of them were held at a military base and later strip searched by police.[268]

25 posted on 12/05/2011 10:47:30 AM PST by grundle
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