Bishop Hill Bunfight at the Wiki corral
Aug 5, 2010 Books Climate: HSI The bunfight over the Wiki page for The Hockey Stick Illusion continues apace, with the whole article now locked down. One of the bones of contention is whether the NWT review that I posted about is allowable, with one participant arguing that the review (which was by NWT's editor) was "a comment to promote a product in a webshop".
The idea that the magazine's editor should be writing sales copy for a webshop is rather extraordinary, so I queried this with Marcel Crok, who ascertained that the review had appeared in the magazine proper...
...and in a sister publication called De Ingenieur....
One word for readers here - I suggest you don't get involved in the bunfight. Leave it to those who have been dealing with the issue already. We don't want to fall foul of Wiki's proscriptions against canvassing.
Reader Comments (8)
No - getting involved in this bun fight would be tedious - but reading it ... just the thing for a slow, damp afternoon!
Popcorn, anybody?
I don't think I can justify the time to sit and watch this one, not after having spent last weekend glued to the three-way CA/RC/BH extravaganza. The BBC's remit used to be to 'inform, educate and entertain'. I'm not sure if it still is, if so it falls short, but CA/BH and a few others would in my opinion be better beneficiaries of the licence fee than the Beeb on the basis that they fulfil that remit so much more successfully.
I see in the edit history the redoubtable Mr Connolley has been busy again...31 edits out of the first 500. I didn't look further.
Wankapedia's basic concept is flawed, so nothing would surprise me. It's a downhill run to the LCD of Piltdown Science.
Exactly - Wiki's a total loss, a babble zone.
Bishop,
Could you give a little more information on this article, where I can find it? I would love to
get a good picture of that Bristlecone pine in the article.
The Wiki article is here. There's already a picture of the cover.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hockey_Stick_Illusion
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