Nathan McCall Followup

[jordan179]

Posted the following (http://battintobatts.com/links-to-content/nathan-mccall-weighs-in-on-mayor-holley/comment-page-1/#comment-322) to the vile worm in human form Nathan McCall, in regards to his attempt to

Comments

[the_hat]

[pathia]

There are some things one can get mixed up in as a kid that I can have sympathy for and...not exactly let it pass...but try to factor it out once they're an adult.

This is NOT one of those things.

[juliet_winters]

Why don't you leave a little something in the way of expanded facts in his Wikipedia entry?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_McCall

Makes him sound like some kind of hero or at least a viable social commentator.

[mrbogey]

Apparently looking at its history it seems like when someone wrote about it some one else immediately edited it out.

[marycatelli]

Wikipedia is -- not unnaturally -- hypersensitive to the possibility of slandering living people.

It does mean that some real data gets left out. When Amanda Marcotte was hired by Jonathan Edwards's campaign, the furor first arose over her extraordinarily pigheaded post about the Duke lacrosse rape hoax; I saw it occuring. You look at her Wikipedia article, all that gets mentioned is her anti-Catholic bigotry.

You need references to say things, and they do not accept blogs.

[headnoises]

Wikipedia is -- not unnaturally -- hypersensitive to the possibility of slandering living people.

Only if they're the "right sort" of people. (Mr. Derbyshire has a heck of an article on it.)

I know there's been a big to-do because they have a history of editors being...er... editorial.