[WikiEN-l] A counterpoint to the mobilization of Stormfront

Wed Feb 9 13:09:23 UTC 2005

OK, so it's not nearly as compelling as Neo-Nazis breathing hard outside 
the door, but I ran across this today on the "Excessive Sweating and Facial 
Blushing" site (it was linked from the talk page of another WP user):

A group with an agenda (opposition to a drastic type of surgery to treat 
sweating disorders) discovered Wikipedia, said, "hey, we can support our 
agenda there"...."but wait, they have an NPOV policy"...."that's ok, we can 
do that"..."in fact, let's invite the doctors who support the treatment to 
come work on it"....
http://www.esfbchannel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=ETS_General&action=display&num=1100250508

And now, two months later, we have a fairly balanced little article on 
[[Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy]], which the group is now telling other 
ETS/anti-ETS sites they can use and copy (WITH proper GFDL linking and 
credit, no less!):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoscopic_thoracic_sympathectomy

Obviously these are rational people, and not ideologues of any stripe -- 
still, I thought it would be a nice bit of evidence that the system /does/ 
usually work.  :)

Catherine