The Wikipedia allows users to anonymously change entries. But a new tool called the WIKIPEDIA SCANNER and created by CalTech grad student Virgil Griffith (pictured) tracks all those changes, telling you what changed and who changed it. The site OUTS WEASELS at corporations who whitewash criticism, government spooks forging revisionist history, and rabid egomaniacs tweaking their own bios.
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So what, next time the Diebold people use a proxy.
Yep, I've known for some time that the far right wing has a crazed agenda to distort our info much as they pollute our water. This is happening all the time. I'm currently issuing an actionalert for this:
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=11656
Crockspot, a homophobic conservative nazi is being voted in as admin as I post this message. This provides the link to the page in question. Having this cockroach transform from an impotent bottom feeder into a person with power would seriously damage Wikipedia's reputation. Cockroachspot would go on a facist rampage and ethnic cleansing of anyone who doesn't distort information into his twisted Bush agenda POV. Go by and vote as soon as possible if you're a member. If not, registration takes about thirty seconds. If you care about not being misinformed every time you google anything having to do with politics-then don't just vote but email anyandeveryone you can. Trust me, your friends will show up by the dozens--and we only need a few dozen more to put the nail in his coffin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Crockspot
According to Wikipedia policy, if you create an account just to vote in an RfA or AfD the closing admin or bureaucrat is free to discount your vote since you're not really a member of the community. So calling for people to register to vote here isn't going to do anything.
Also it's interesting that we don't hear similar outrages at liberal POV-pushing admins. (I'm not saying there are any, but since you seem to be pretty sure that admin conservative pushers exist I'd be interested to note if you think any liberal ones exist.)
The DCCC defaced Rush Limbaugh's entry, when there's another party in power the number of offenses of that party will increase. The only thing as amusing as the vast right-wing conspiracy theories are the vast left-wing conspiracy theories. Neither side is nearly organized enough to pull off that much control.
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