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| − | The Daniel Brandt biographical entry was created with the intent to smear him as extreme so Brandt could no longer be cited as a critic of Chip Berlet. SlimVirgin, creator of the article stated twice she did not consider Brandt a credible source. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Chip_Berlet&diff=prev&oldid=9161554] A few weeks before creating Brandt's bio [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangerdude User:Rangerdude] had aptly demonstrated Berlet's total lack of scholarly credentials [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Roots_of_anti-Semitism&diff=20212920&oldid=20187928] in the "Roots of Anti-Semitism" article. SlimVirgin and Rangerdude had this exchange:
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| − | :'''WP:NOR#What counts as a reputable publication?''' says: "A magazine or press release self-published by a very extreme political or religious group would often not be regarded as "reputable". For example, Wikipedia would not rely only on an article in a '''Socialist Workers' Party'''... --SlimVirgin 07:12, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
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| − | :"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]
| + | Brandt wrote in 1991 of [[Politcal Research Associates]] (PRA), such a group will "generally inbreed with their adversaries and mutate into a peculiar political animal". [http://www.namebase.org/news02.html] By mid 2005, precisely these type of activities of PRA described by Brandt were pervasive in the politcal shpere in Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who is reputed to be former JFK Press Secretary [[Pierre Salinger]]'s chief researcher Linda Mack [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=3910&st=0&p=15170&#entry15170] when the two worked together in the 1980s for ''ABC News'', was asked to remove Brandt's criticism of PRA, and it's Senior Researcher, [[Chip Berlet]] [http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10352], from Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who wrote most of Wikipedia's Attribtution policies, rewrote the Reliable Source policy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Rangerdude/Workshop#Request_of_finding_for_ex_post_facto_policy_changes]which at the time would have denied using Berlet as a source for any article in Wikipedia on the basis of being published in "extremeist publications". Before she was through, she created the Daniel Brandt bio ''citing Berlet as a source'' to accuse Brandt of a guilt by association smear -- be aligned with Holocaust denial. Brandt, having been smeared by the cabal of Berlet & SlimVirgin, then could not be cited as a ctitic of Berlet or PRA, on the basis of being aligned with extremists. |
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| − | 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]
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| − | Berlet outed the unnamed source and linked him to [[Holocaust denial]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Information_Research#_note-0]
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| − | :"This complaint was written by Daniel Brandt," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cberlet/Archive_2005-06_2005-08#Red-baiting_Lie_Article.21]
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| − | 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'' Marxist-Leninist ''Guardian'' [http://www.publiceye.org/berlet/berlet_articles.html] newspaper and is cited by a mainstream publisher, ''Prometheus Books'', as an extremist 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 these violations of Wikipedia's, 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] Jimbo Wales repeated SlimVirgin's claim that Brandt was not a "credible source" when he told ''Editor & Publisher'',
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| − | :"I don't regard him as a valid source about anything at all." [http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html]
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| − | 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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-04-23/Brandt_unblock]
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| | ==Sinbad Hoax== | | ==Sinbad Hoax== |