| − | Brandt wrote in 1991 of [[Political Research Associates]] (PRA), such a group will "generally inbreed with their adversaries and mutate into a peculiar political animal". <ref>http://www.namebase.org/news02.html</ref> By mid 2005, precisely these type of activities of PRA described by Brandt were pervasive in the political sphere in Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who is reputed to be former [[JFK]] [[White House]] Press Secretary [[Pierre Salinger]]'s chief researcher Linda Mack <ref>http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=3910&st=0&p=15170&#entry15170</ref><ref>http://11syyskuu.net/octopus/trail.ch.15.htm</ref> when the two worked together for ''ABC News'' in the 1980s, was asked by PRA's Senior Researcher [[Chip Berlet]] <ref>http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10352</ref> to sanitize Brandt's criticism of Berlet and PRA from all of Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who wrote most of Wikipedia's Attribution policies, rewrote the Reliable Source policy <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Rangerdude/Workshop#Request_of_finding_for_ex_post_facto_policy_changes</ref> which at the time would have banned Berlet as a source ''for any article'' in Wikipedia because of Berlet's [[extreme]] views published over the years in various extremist publications. Before she was through, she created the Daniel Brandt bio ''citing Berlet as a source'' to accuse Brandt of a false and malicious guilt by association smear -- aligned with Holocaust deniers. Brandt, having been smeared by the cabal of Berlet & SlimVirgin, with the rewritten policy could no longer be used as a critic of Berlet or PRA, on the basis of him being aligned with extremists. | + | Brandt wrote in 1991 of [[Political Research Associates]] (PRA), such a group will "generally inbreed with their adversaries and mutate into a peculiar political animal". <ref>http://www.namebase.org/news02.html</ref> By mid 2005, precisely these type of activities of PRA described by Brandt were pervasive in the political sphere in Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who is reputed to be former [[JFK]] [[White House]] Press Secretary [[Pierre Salinger]]'s chief researcher Linda Mack <ref>http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=3910&st=0&p=15170&#entry15170</ref><ref>http://11syyskuu.net/octopus/trail.ch.15.htm</ref><ref>[http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=374006&rel_no=1&back_url= ''Wikipedia and the Intelligence Services], |
| | + | Is the Net's popular encyclopedia marred by disinformation?'', Ludwig De Braeckeleer, Ohmy News, 2007-07-26 11:57</ref> when the two worked together for ''ABC News'' in the 1980s, was asked by PRA's Senior Researcher [[Chip Berlet]] <ref>http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10352</ref> to sanitize Brandt's criticism of Berlet and PRA from all of Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who wrote most of Wikipedia's Attribution policies, rewrote the Reliable Source policy <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Rangerdude/Workshop#Request_of_finding_for_ex_post_facto_policy_changes</ref> which at the time would have banned Berlet as a source ''for any article'' in Wikipedia because of Berlet's [[extreme]] views published over the years in various extremist publications. Before she was through, she created the Daniel Brandt bio ''citing Berlet as a source'' to accuse Brandt of a false and malicious guilt by association smear -- aligned with Holocaust deniers. Brandt, having been smeared by the cabal of Berlet & SlimVirgin, with the rewritten policy could no longer be used as a critic of Berlet or PRA, on the basis of him being aligned with extremists. |
| | Brandt had for many months posted the real life identities of several Wikipedia Administrators on his wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html site because in Brandt's view Wikipedia not only allows, but encourages, the unfair invasion of a public person's privacy by anonymous Wikipedia Sysop smearmongers. <ref>http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=063d220bf3cf1aeeb502a12236fa8f1e&showtopic=5641&pid=21441&mode=threaded&show=&st=&#entry21441</ref> | | Brandt had for many months posted the real life identities of several Wikipedia Administrators on his wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html site because in Brandt's view Wikipedia not only allows, but encourages, the unfair invasion of a public person's privacy by anonymous Wikipedia Sysop smearmongers. <ref>http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=063d220bf3cf1aeeb502a12236fa8f1e&showtopic=5641&pid=21441&mode=threaded&show=&st=&#entry21441</ref> |