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Censored Wikipedia Articles Appear On Protest Site
Gregory Rider writes "According to a recent article in The Guardian, a group of disenchanted Wikipedia administrators has been going through back channels on Wikipedia and retrieving articles deleted by Jimbo Wales or other higher-ups. Now they're putting them back up on a website for everyone to see. This includes articles on Justin Berry, Paul Barresi, and, most strangely, Brian Peppers, which has been solicited for deletion off of Wikipedia 6 times with mixed success and is now banned from being edited on for a whole year."
Why should these people have articles dedicated to them in an encyclopedia? Knowledge of these people amount to pretty much internet trivia. Why do these, or half of Wikipedia's articles exist? Well, because the internet says so and the internet is what fills Wikipedia's pages. This is why "real" encyclopedias say Wikipedia will never be a "real" encyclopedia: because it has too many fluff/worthless pieces that are of no encyclopedic merit like the three mentioned in the blurb.
Why is this relevant to this thread? I'll happily answer, and even post it publicly to avoid accusations that I'm hiding anything, somewhere else. Try the talk page of the arbcom page or the clerks page
I'm suprised that there is no Wikipedia entry for wikitruth.
but then again it seems wikipedia has gone over to the darkside.
thats kinda pathetic... I guess i should no longer consider Wiki a reliable info source with all the selective editing and deletions by the corrupt staffers