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{{Cquote|I don't regard him as a valid source about anything at all, based on my interactions with him. I tried very hard to help him, and he misrepresented nearly everything about our conversation in his very strange rant. He considers the very existence of a Wikipedia article about him to be a privacy violation, despite being a public person. I find it hard to take him very seriously at all. He misrepresents everything about our procedures, claiming that we have a 'secret police' and so on.<ref>[http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/article_brief/eandp/1/1001612839 Wikipedia Founder, Readers Respond to Seigenthaler Article], Jay DeFoore, ''Editor & Publisher'', December 01, 2005.</ref>}}

{{Cquote|I don't regard him as a valid source about anything at all, based on my interactions with him. I tried very hard to help him, and he misrepresented nearly everything about our conversation in his very strange rant. He considers the very existence of a Wikipedia article about him to be a privacy violation, despite being a public person. I find it hard to take him very seriously at all. He misrepresents everything about our procedures, claiming that we have a 'secret police' and so on.<ref>[http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/article_brief/eandp/1/1001612839 Wikipedia Founder, Readers Respond to Seigenthaler Article], Jay DeFoore, ''Editor & Publisher'', December 01, 2005.</ref>}}

Wales comments had an immediate threefold effect: 1) this was exactly what Berlet wanted, an official declaration removing Brandt's status as any sort of expert critic on Chip Berlet; 2) it fueled the already existent anti-Brandt sentiment within the Wikipedia Admin community; and 3) it added '''undue weight''' ('''WP:UNDUE''')<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:UNDUE#Undue_weight</ref> to criticism of Brandt when placed within the Wikipedia entry on Brandt, another systemic violation of Wikipedia's own written policies. All hope for a civil and equitiable resolution to the impasse was lost, and many unwitting dupes in the Wikipedia Admin community picked up the anti-Brandt torch to retain the article simply because Brandt wanted it deleted.  Brandt began demanding accountability from the army of unnamed, unidentified Wikipedia Administrators further Berlet's agenda to destroy Brandt's credibility, and elevate his own as a Wikipedia "expert," while concealing the [[extremist]] roots of his own backgraound which would deny him inclusion as a source on any subject other than himself.

Wales comments had an immediate threefold effect: 1) this was exactly what Berlet wanted, an official declaration removing Brandt's status as any sort of expert critic on Chip Berlet; 2) it fueled the already existent anti-Brandt sentiment within the Wikipedia Admin community; and 3) it added '''undue weight''' ('''WP:UNDUE''')<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:UNDUE#Undue_weight</ref> to criticism of Brandt when placed within the Wikipedia entry on Brandt, another systemic violation of Wikipedia's own written policies. All hope for a civil and equitiable resolution to the impasse was lost, and many unwitting dupes in the Wikipedia Admin community picked up the anti-Brandt torch to retain the article simply because Brandt wanted it deleted.  Brandt began demanding accountability from the army of unnamed, unidentified Wikipedia Administrators furthering Berlet's agenda to destroy Brandt's credibility, and elevate Berlet's own as a Wikipedia "expert," while concealing the [[extremist]] roots of Berlet's own backgraound which would deny him inclusion as a source on any subject other than himself.

=== Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Extremist sources ===

=== Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Extremist sources ===