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Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
> Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
>
>
> > John Seigenthaler is on NPR's Talk Of The Nation show right now, discussing 
> > the entry made about him in Wikipedia.
> > At least he has this opportunity for access to good PR with which he can 
> > exonerate himself.
>
>
> .... and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, who said that they can and will 
> always purge the revision histories
> of all offensive submissions (my words).
>
> I didn't know that Wikipedia had, in part, turned into a nasty BBS 
> (electrobulletinboardservice)
> for whiners, those sans alife and other malcontents and misfits intent on dominating someone 
> else's podium with their
> radical political and social views of what they see as the world.

Relax, in general I'd say wikipedia coped well and responsivly to the 
situation. As soon as they were made aware of the situation it was 
fixed. In most places the more radical or reactionary views are kept in 
check by the majority. Its only because Seigenthaler page was a very 
minor one that the error went unnoticed for so long.

As an example of the responsiveness of wikipedia an artical I created
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrmann_Brain_Dominance_Instrument
on a particular system for assessing learning styles is currently up for 
deletion. So I'm quite aware of the editorial control in wikipedia.

Out of interest I'm working on an article on Yeomans Keyline planning system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyline_Planning
your welcome to contribute.

Rich