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Line 50: − So SlimVirgin rewrote Official Wikipedia Reliable Sources Policy to make Berlet mainstream.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Rangerdude/Workshop#Request_of_finding_for_ex_post_facto_policy_changes] Then old dormant dispute between Brandt and Berlet from a decade and half ago was reignited. The two worked together for many years, but had a falling out in 1991; Brandt was quoted as an anonymous critic from a ''FrontPage magazine.com'' citation in Berlet's wiki entry, with these words,+ + − + + − + − − Berlet wanted the criticism of him and his organization removed. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Political_Research_Associates#Fairness_and_Balance] On the same day the Daniel Brandt biography was created to cast Brandt and his organization as extremist using a guilt by association smear of being aligned with Holocaust denial. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Information_Research#_note-0] Who was the source of the claim? A self published source, Chip Berlet and Political Research Associates. According to the Introduction [http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/orgs/american/ftp.py?orgs/american//political-research-associates/right.w.left] to the self published source, Berlet's allegation Brandt and his organization were aligned with Holocaust deniers first appeared two months earlier in September of 1991 in an ''extremist'' publication, the Marxist-Leninist ''Guardian''. [http://www.publiceye.org/berlet/berlet_articles.html] The ''Guardian'' newspaper, which at one time had a reporter, Wilfred Burchett, who participated in interrogations of American POWs in North Korean prison-of-war camps, is cited in a contemporaneous book from 1992 by the mainstream publisher ''Prometheus Books'' which is entitled, ''Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America'', by John George, Laird Wilcox, ISBN 1-57392-058-4, as an extremist publication. See Chapter 9, pgs. 125-131. [http://www.questia.com/library/book/nazis-communists-klansmen-and-others-on-the-fringe-political-extremism-in-america-by-john-george-laird-wilcox.jsp]+ − − Added to all these violations of Official Wikipedia Policy is this event, Berlet citing himself and personally inserting potentially libelous and defamatory material from a questionable and self-published source into an article of a living person and fellow registered user. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Brandt&diff=55132392&oldid=55131921] − − − After possible malicious intent of slander was being publicly discussed surrounding the events which lead to the creation of Brandt's entry, Wales comments to ''Editor & Publisher'' were removed from Brandt's bio under the "tabloid clause" of Reliable Sources. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Brandt&diff=prev&oldid=104935334]+ − − Meantime, numerous Wikipedia Administrators have been caught in the crossfire of a drive-by smear against Brandt in an old leftist sectarian dispute none of them know anything about.
→Daniel Brandt controversy: condense; upadate
:"Curiously your example of the '''Socialist Worker's Party''' does little to help your case as Mr. Berlet's own biography proudly states that he has worked on behalf of this very same extremist group! --Rangerdude 07:30, 4 August 2005 (UTC) [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Roots_of_anti-Semitism&diff=prev&oldid=20246130]
:"Curiously your example of the '''Socialist Worker's Party''' does little to help your case as Mr. Berlet's own biography proudly states that he has worked on behalf of this very same extremist group! --Rangerdude 07:30, 4 August 2005 (UTC) [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Roots_of_anti-Semitism&diff=prev&oldid=20246130]
SlimVirgin then rewrote Official Wikipedia Reliable Sources Policy to make Berlet mainstream.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Rangerdude/Workshop#Request_of_finding_for_ex_post_facto_policy_changes] Brandt and Berlet had worked together for many years, but had a falling out in 1991, and Brandt was being quoted as an anonymous critic in Berlet's wiki bio,
:“one [[leftist]] writer mentions Berlet’s “crusade” against Progressives who stray from Berlet's ideological fever swamps [http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10352]
:“Reviewing one of Berlet’s screeds, one leftist writer mentions Berlet’s “crusade” against Progressives who stray from Berlet's ideological fever swamps by working with non-leftist groups. In a fascinating conclusion, the leftist commentator warns that Berlet “may try to undermine your work and isolate you.” [http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10352]
Berlet outed the unnamed source and linked him to [[Holocaust denial]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Information_Research#_note-0]
:This complaint was written by Daniel Brandt, who I criticized because he was urging people on the left to read the anti-Semitic ''Spotlight'' newspaper (at the time published by Holocaust denier Willis Carto) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cberlet/Archive_2005-06_2005-08#Red-baiting_Lie_Article.21]
Berlet expressed displeasure at the criticism and publicly named the "leftist writer";
with the intent to get the criticism removed. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Political_Research_Associates#Fairness_and_Balance] Berlet's self published guilt by association smear[http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/orgs/american/ftp.py?orgs/american//political-research-associates/right.w.left] first appeared in September of 1991 in the ''extremist'' the Marxist-Leninist ''Guardian'' [http://www.publiceye.org/berlet/berlet_articles.html] newspaper and is cited by a mainstream publisher, ''Prometheus Books'', as an extremsit publication. [http://www.questia.com/library/book/nazis-communists-klansmen-and-others-on-the-fringe-political-extremism-in-america-by-john-george-laird-wilcox.jsp ''Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America''], John George & Laird Wilcox, Chapter 9, pgs. 125-131, ISBN 1-57392-058-4. In addition to all these violations of Wikipedia's published policies Berlet cites himself, violates BLP, and personally inserts libelous material into an article about a fellow registered user. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Brandt&diff=55132392&oldid=55131921]
:This complaint was written by Daniel Brandt, who I criticized because he was urging people on the left to read the anti-Semitic ''Spotlight'' newspaper (at the time published by Holocaust denier Willis Carto.) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cberlet/Archive_2005-06_2005-08#Red-baiting_Lie_Article.21]
Jimbo Wales repeated SlimVirgin's claim that Brandt was not a "credible source" when he told ''Editor & Publisher'',
Jimbo Wales echoed SlimVirgin's view that Brandt was not a "credible source", and told ''Editor & Publisher'',
:"I don't regard him as a valid source about anything at all." [http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html]
:"I don't regard him as a valid source about anything at all." [http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html]
When the possible malicious intent of slander was publicly exposed about why Brandt's bio was created, the undue weight of Wales comments were removed as "tabloid" (WP:RS). [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Brandt&diff=prev&oldid=104935334] On 18 April 2007 Wales unblocked Brandt to talk "about a productive way forward". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_sanction_noticeboard/Unblocking_of_Daniel_Brandt#Unblocking_of_Daniel_Brandt] Brandt wrote to the Wikien-1 mailing list "I feel that Jimmy Wales made the wrong decision when he unbanned me a couple of days ago." After the nightmare of the past year and half Brandt wants the article deleted completly and is not interested in anything short of that.
==Sinbad Hoax==
==Sinbad Hoax==