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Warren DeMontague

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5. And just like DU

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 28, 2015, 08:18 AM

Jan 2015

anyone who doesn't like wikipedia or its rules, not only doesn't have to participate in it, but is totally free to start their own website.

That's what the "Conservapedia" folks did- no, I'm not going to link to 'em- and now they have their "own" ---pedia...

blissfully free from pesky objective facts, instead relying on the sort of "truthiness" which says evolution must be false because Hitler, or something.

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Wikipedia Purged a Group of Feminist Editors Because of Gamergate [View all] Veilex Jan 2015 OP

The wrongdoings of those who got banned is pretty lengthy Major Nikon Jan 2015 #1

Interesting. Veilex Jan 2015 #2

It's not "silencing", as I understand it. Wikipedia has rules, it's not someone's personal tumblr. Warren DeMontague Jan 2015 #3

As we all know, if you were born with a penis, you can't possibly understand Major Nikon Jan 2015 #4

And just like DU Warren DeMontague Jan 2015 #5

"Kinda sounds like this well thought out and unemotional assessment" Veilex Jan 2015 #6

I don't actually have a strong opinion on "gamergate". Warren DeMontague Jan 2015 #7

True. Veilex Jan 2015 #8

Paul Elam is a nobody who tried to attach himself to Gamer Gate because nobody cares about him. chrisa Feb 2015 #11

Looking at him, I suspect the last videogame he actually played was "pong" Warren DeMontague Feb 2015 #12

I go to DU for opinion. I go to Wikipedia for fact. lumberjack_jeff Jan 2015 #9

*nod* Veilex Jan 2015 #10