Who is editing wikipedia?

I'm somewhat perplexed. I mean, this kind of mindset

Foofie wrote:

Yes, citizens are not supposed to criticize their respective governments, if the government doesn't value that criticism.

Foofie wrote:

Who says I love "freedom"? I believe freedom can also result in mob rule or total chaos.

Foofie wrote:

I think "correct regimentation" can be a good thing.

Foofie wrote:

"Don't bit the hand that feeds you," reflects the concept of gratitude.

would make you the perfect subject of any random regime you could come up with. People who believe that authority should not be criticised. People who believe that freedom is not necessarily desirable. People who believe that curtailing freedoms is a good thing. People who think that gratitude to those in power is a virtue.

Yes, he's a good little servant..

Foofie wrote:

blatham wrote:

Could you then please clarify for the rest of us Foofie, just where your noble American citizenship principle comes from?

My mother. She also advised, "When in Rome do as the Romans do."

I think what you may not "get" is who I am historically. If you haven't figure it out, I like the mystery. But, I assure you, there are others who have.

I hope you are braver than this in other aspects of your life.

blatham wrote:

Foofie wrote:

blatham wrote:

Could you then please clarify for the rest of us Foofie, just where your noble American citizenship principle comes from?

My mother. She also advised, "When in Rome do as the Romans do."

I think what you may not "get" is who I am historically. If you haven't figure it out, I like the mystery. But, I assure you, there are others who have.

I hope you are braver than this in other aspects of your life.

Don't talk as though you know me.

Foofie wrote:

blatham wrote:

Foofie wrote:

blatham wrote:

Could you then please clarify for the rest of us Foofie, just where your noble American citizenship principle comes from?

My mother. She also advised, "When in Rome do as the Romans do."

I think what you may not "get" is who I am historically. If you haven't figure it out, I like the mystery. But, I assure you, there are others who have.

I hope you are braver than this in other aspects of your life.

Don't talk as though you know me.

But we do know some things about you, foofie. That's why you are here, engaged on a public political discussion board...to share yourself, your ideas and your political principles. You brought yourself in here and said, not without pride, "This is who I am."

Nothing wrong with that, of course, it describes all of us.

But you took the coward's way out by not answering my question above. Your political 'principle' - it is a citizen's proper role and duty to never criticize one's nation or leaders - appears to stand in clear and direct opposition to American political traditions and values as demonstrated by the numerous voices I offered you from many truly great Americans. You didn't rise to the challenge. You hid.

I have my position and I have no desire to debate, beyond what was previously said.

Neil's mom is deceased. Who else would care?

That's a little bit funny. I'd give it a much greater than 50/50 chance that whoever did the original was from the same part of the US of A as the artist himself.

Since then, some Wiki editor has made the entry less humorous and less accurate.

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Since then, some Wiki editor has made the entry less humorous and less accurate.

"Talk" it was, the very same who did all alterrations and wrote the original article. (According to her/his IP-address from Vancouver - which doesn't mean a lot, since my address, for instance, is registered in New York ...))

Walter Hinteler wrote:

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Since then, some Wiki editor has made the entry less humorous and less accurate.

"Talk" it was, the very same who did all alterrations and wrote the original article. (According to her/his IP-address from Vancouver - which doesn't mean a lot, since my address, for instance, is registered in New York ...))

Huh???

Thank you, those who made reference to the subject at hand and gave me some information on the topic. The editing of Winki (ostensibly an encyclopediac sourse of information) causes the information therein to be suspect, in that one does not know the credentials of the editor.

Royals edited Wikipedia entry

Expatica
30 August 2007

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Controversial Dutch Princess Mabel and her husband Prince Johan Friso edited a Wikipedia entry about her to take out a reference that she had given false information to the government, the royal information service RVD confirmed Wednesday.

Several media outlets here reported that a computer with an IP address registered to the palace of Queen Beatrix amended a sentence in the entry saying that Mabel had given "incomplete and false information" to the government over her relationship with drugs lord Klaas Bruinsma.

It was changed to say she had given "incomplete information".

The RVD confirmed the changes late Wednesday and said it was the couple themselves who had changed the entry in January last year.

The entry was quickly re-edited by another Wikipedia user who pointed out that the phrase "incomplete and false information" was a direct quote from Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.

In 2003, when Prince Johan Friso announced his engagement to Mabel, the Dutch media quickly picked up on her past relationship with Bruinsma, who was killed in 1991.

She at first said she had only known him "vaguely" but later admitted to spending several nights on his boat.

The government forced Johan Friso to choose between his rights to the throne or his fiancee. He chose to renounce his rights and they were married in 2005.

Wikipedia is an "open-source" internet encyclopaedia, which is to say anyone with access to a computer can edit it.

After an American hacker unveiled a homemade program called Wikiscanner to pinpoint origins of Wikipedia edits earlier this month, it emerged that organisations such as the CIA, the Vatican and the Australian government had all made self-serving edits on the popular website.