And this is "big news" how? What would be surprising is if there weren't people out there doing this.
Brad
On multiple subjects. Wikipedia has a dispute resolution process, although I cannot comment on it having only ever edited tiny minor errors and spelling mistakes.
For the dark side of the dark coin check conservapedia.
On a side note, I know what I suspect the author of this piece of - but he should have taken the dispute through if he has actual documentary evidence that Peiser has not retracted. 'Tabletop' is quite right, hearsay is not wikipedia material. They'd need a source. Emails published on a homepage and verified would probably be good enough.
I've been flaying Wikipedia regularly for info on my most recent crush, WWII aircraft. I have no reason to believe that someone is going to misrepresent data like that. I don't think anyone has a political agenda to falsify the wing loading of the P-38J, for example.
The only editing I've ever done was in the entry for Rodger Young.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger_Wilton_Young
I added the following:
The Night Infiltration Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, is named for him. A requirement for graduation from the U.S. Army Infantry School, soldiers must crawl over 100 meters through sand, mud, and water while live rounds from M60 or M240B machine guns are fired overhead. Soldiers must also react to artillery simulators and flares, set off randomly during the exercise. Originally the live rounds were fired at chest level, but in recent years it was mandated that they pass well overhead of a standing person.
And of course one of the ships in Starship Troopers was named after Rodger Young. Great book by Heinlein, mediocre movie.
What's mediocre about giant beetles taking out space ships while shooting plasma jets out their butts!?
And this is "big news" how? What would be surprising is if there weren't people out there doing this.
Brad
On multiple subjects. Wikipedia has a dispute resolution process, although I cannot comment on it having only ever edited tiny minor errors and spelling mistakes.
For the dark side of the dark coin check conservapedia.
On a side note, I know what I suspect the author of this piece of - but he should have taken the dispute through
if he has actual documentary evidence that Peiser has not retracted. 'Tabletop' is quite right, hearsay is not wikipedia material. They'd need a source. Emails published on a homepage and verified would probably be good enough.
Hearsay was enough for "Tabletop" to re-edit the entry. It was enough for her to re-edit a whole passel fo them, it seems.
Like I said, zealots.
Religion for the secular.