[Foundation-l] Paid editing, was Re: Ban and moderate

Sat Oct 23 14:15:05 UTC 2010

In a message dated 10/23/2010 3:40:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk writes:

> OK this is going to be controversial but have you ever considered taht 
> maybe you shouldn't have anything on Atorvastatin other than what comes 
> as the medical advice in the packaging? One cannot provide any useful 
> advice on whether someone should use the drug or not that should be 
> between the patient and their doctor. I mean its not as if wikipedia is 
> an expert pharmacopeia as wikipedia doesn't have experts weighing the 
> evidence one way or the other, all you can do is mimic the day to day 
> controversy which of its very nature is going to be conflict ridden.
> 
> If there are still any pretensions of being encyclopaedic here then any 
> such articles should only be written once the conflict has been resolved.
> 
> Example here is the MMR article from one period in 2004:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MMR_vaccine&oldid=6127791
> 
> any parent reading that article at that time is highly unlikely to have 
> opted for the vaccine. Or take the final paragraph here:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MMR_vaccine&
> oldid=6127791#The_MMR_controversy
> 
> adding every rumour, statement, or innuendo that someone somewhere in 
> the world might have once said, however wrong, is unencyclopeadic. It is 
> certainly not without consequences. How many children were made ill by 
> those paragraphs?
> http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/vaxpictures/measles3.htm
> http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/vaxpictures/measles1.htm
> http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/vaxpictures/mumps1.htm
> http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/vaxpictures/mumps2.htm
> http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/vaxpictures.htm   >>
> 

Why would you make such outrageous statements and expect any result here?
On what space have you been slumming where people add "every rumour, 
statement or innuendo that someone somewhere in the world might have once said"?  
Please tell me, I'm dying to know.  I mean I'm really dying.

See I took Atorvastatin and you wouldn't let the project report that the 
Stanford Medical Journal reported that it causes more damage to the heart than 
is acceptable.  You want us only to report things once the controversy is 
over, in other words once 25,000 people have gotten sick from salmonella 
eggs... not just a thousand.  No wait, actually after all the lawsuits are over 
and the people involved are all dead as well.

See what outrageously extreme statements do for your cause?  Nothing.
Now back to our regular program already in progress.

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