Longtime readers of Paulitics may remember the incident during the 2007 Ontario General Election where right wing wikipedia editors tried to censor the Paulitics polling resources from the “external sites” section of the Ontario election wikipedia article.
The grounds for this move, of course as you may recall, were completely flimsy. At first the argument was that there were already too many linked websites (even though there were fewer sites for that election in progress than there were for the as-of-yet to be announced 40th Canadian federal election wikipedia article). The second argument was that my web page is partisan and highly opinionated (even though I didn’t link to ANY of my commentary and despite the fact that people of all ideologies use the Paulitics polling resource as their source for polling data). Then, finally, the reasonable argument was made that I, as the owner of the blog, couldn’t continue to fight the edit war by reintroducing my site since that was a conflict of interest. I accepted this argument and, at this point, a good Samaritan (Nick J Boragina) stepped in and went to bat for me.
Now, after well over a year being listed on the 40th General Election wikipedia article, some wikipedia user (I don’t know who) has removed Paulitics from the list of sites doing polling work and refused to include Paulitics among the sites that do seat projections (despite the fact that Paulitics was the #1 most accurate seat projection site for the 2007 Ontario election).
Is there a good Samaritan who will go to bat for me once again on Wikipedia?
On it!
I’ll keep my eye on it as well.
BTW, I want to apologize for calling you “bad”. It was very George Bush of me :P
Thanks Mudkips!!
No offence taken, Nick.