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brandon
10-31-2009, 11:49 PM
There's all kinds of dirt we can add to the wikis of neocons without being biased or off topic. Here are some I just did. Feel free to help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Mitt_Romney#Declaration_of_ War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney#Political_positions

dr. hfn
11-01-2009, 12:11 AM
please do more!!!!

Pauls' Revere
11-01-2009, 12:30 AM
There's all kinds of dirt we can add to the wikis of neocons without being biased or off topic. Here are some I just did. Feel free to help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Mitt_Romney#Declaration_of_ War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney#Political_positions

Beautiful...I Love It!

Bravo Zulu!

squarepusher
11-01-2009, 02:21 AM
i got into some fights with wikipedia 'admins' a while back, and haven't edited since. Turns out I was right, had to do with the Zeitgeist movie wikipedia page which I originally made, then they deleted claiming it wasn't suitable (now, its up with 10's of thousands of revisions)

hugolp
11-01-2009, 02:57 AM
I do the same but about economic facts in small pages wich nobody care about. Almost all are keynesian perspective and I change it to a austrian perspective.

GunnyFreedom
11-01-2009, 03:01 AM
OK OK I've been putting it off, and now I suppose I'll finally have to get an account there.

SimpleName
11-01-2009, 06:03 AM
I've always wanted to add stuff to these things, never have though. I'm never in the right mood. Someday though, I'll probably go psycho and become wiki king.

Side Note: Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia...libertarian!

jmdrake
11-01-2009, 06:36 AM
i got into some fights with wikipedia 'admins' a while back, and haven't edited since. Turns out I was right, had to do with the Zeitgeist movie wikipedia page which I originally made, then they deleted claiming it wasn't suitable (now, its up with 10's of thousands of revisions)

I hope your page included the fact that ZG part 1 was complete bunk and that ZG addendum pushed socialism as the "solution". ZG parts 2,3 are decent.

HOLLYWOOD
11-01-2009, 07:38 AM
I'm surprised the Wiki Nazis haven't contacted you or deleted your edits, or worst blocked/banned.

I tried editing Senator Thad Cochran, Mississippi on his Slimeball Cheap Import Bill legislation that killed cheap drugs for all of us and Big Pharma would make a payment of $350 Million to the FDA.

Wiki killed it and refused to let me post on what they said, "Living Politician serving actively" and wanted "Neutrality" . BTW, if external sources continue to edit WIKI pages even after users are blocked, they will lock down the WIKI page.

Why has anyone modded Barney Frank's or Mel Watt's?

jmdrake
11-01-2009, 07:55 AM
I'm surprised the Wiki Nazi haven't contacted you or deleted your edits.

I tried editing Senator Thad Cochran, Mississippi on his Slimeball Cheap Import Bill legislation that killed cheap drugs for all of us and a payment of $350 Million by big Phrama to the FDA.

Wiki killed it and refused to let me post on what they said, "Living Politician serving actively" and wanted "Neutrality" . BTW, if external sources continue to edit WIKI pages even after users are blocked, they will lock down the WIKI page.

Why has anyone modded Barney Frank's or Mel Watt's?

I've won some Wiki fights and lost some. Something to realize is that Wikipedia is a "meritocracy". People who do it a lot "earn" extra privileges over time (like ability to lock pages). I helped undermine the smear against Charlie Sheen on Wikipedia and I'm proud of that. Sometimes I've found if you let a page sit for a while and come back you'll edit will stay. It depends on how actively a page is monitored. I'm willing to bet most senators have at least one staff member assigned to monitor their wiki page. You can also try other methods like simply linking a brief statement about the bill in question to Cochran's page and then putting your commentary on the page about the bill.