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

Wed Feb 9 19:18:37 UTC 2005

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 05:09:23 -0800, Catherine Munro <artslave at usa.net> wrote:
> 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

No, they didn't say any of that verbatim. They never even mentioned
pushing agenda.