David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war

Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by obstinate on Sunday June 11, 2017 @10:59PM (#14534985)

The author, or perhaps the author's affiliates, are doing battle with RationalWiki over the right to have PSI research and other nonsense treated as factual on Wikipedia. http://wikipediawehaveaproblem.com/2015/11/how-rational-wiki... Or at least they claim they are. RationalWiki's page seems to suggest that they are not the ones editing Wikipedia to reflect the skeptical viewpoint in this case. This was linked from the article here posted, which is the only reason I know about it. But anyway, it does not do much to inspire confidence.

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by majewsky on Monday June 12, 2017 @03:27AM (#14535637)

> PSI research and other nonsense

What is PSI here? The disambiguation page on Wikipedia doesn't suggest a fitting expansation AFAICS.

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by SideburnsOfDoom on Monday June 12, 2017 @04:35AM (#14535839)

In context, PSI likely means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psionics

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by hoofish on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:26AM (#14543178)

That's misinformation. I have nothing to do with PSI, i just focused on two biographies of two individuals who are fringe proponents. I specifically only edited basic biographical meta data. My detractors want to paint me as a fringe promoter so as to discredit my study.

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by obstinate on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:09PM (#14545850)

He that lieth with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

All I know about you is that you spent some time working on pseudoscientists' Wikipedia pages, including editing Deepak Chopra's page while being paid by Deepak Chopra, and now have some beef with RationalWiki and Wikipedia. This pattern matches a little too well for me to want to spend time looking into it more deeply. Best of luck.

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Re:David Gerard vs. the blockchain, an emerging wiki war by hoofish on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:07AM (#14642713)

excuse you?

"spent some time working on pseudoscientists pages" IRL means I edited two biographical articles and focused primarily on meta data and non controversial biographical facts.

Since when is someone accused of being a "liar" based on what articles they edit on Wikipedia?

If I edit an article on Germany, does that make me German?

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