Wikipedia Kills Page Linking Obama Slogan to Socialist Movement
From The NY Times:
After a debate among readers who also cast votes on the issue, the Wikipedia administrator essentially killed the page by having it redirect to the general article on the Obama-Biden presidential campaign; all that is left of the original article is the simple statement: “On April 30, 2012, the campaign announced that its slogan would be ‘Forward.’”
After a similar debate, another Wikipedia article “Forward (generic name of socialist publications)” — with its examples of titles like Eteenpain, a Finnish-American Communist newspaper, and Avante!, produced by the Portuguese Communist Party — was simply deleted.
Wikipedia’s decision became news before it was even made: The Drudge Report last week issued a call to arms to its readers, linking to the “Forward” article under the headline “WIKIPEDIA mulls deleting entry on Obama-Biden slogan…”
The article also discusses how editors handled a situation from earlier this year involving a Newt Gingrich spokesperson.
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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