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Wikipedia? They Should Call it ‘Wicked-pedia’

Peter O'Brien

Mar 06 2021

9 mins

At the risk of seeming self-obsessed, I would like to share with readers the latest installment of my adventures in Wikipedialand.  I have been blocked as an editor and have appealed my sentence.  What follows, while it might seem trivial, comes with a larger and more important message: conservatives are losing the big battles because we are too easily concede the little ones.

Let me begin by pointing readers to the previous two recountings of my battles with the gatekeepers who have made what should be an invaluable resource into a collection of authorised leftist narratives and, with few exceptions, only leftist narratives. ‘Something Wiki this Way Comes‘ begins the saga, with ‘Tell the Truth, Get Wikiwhacked’ the second installment. What follows are e3xcerpts from the subsequent to and fro.

Before that, however, I draw readers’ attention to Wikipedia’s pleas for donations and hope that any tempted to dig into their wallets will think twice. Wikipedia’s stated goals are noble…

Peter O'Brien

Peter O'Brien

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