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I would like to discuss why you decided to undo my edit without even talking about it with me or others, and without providing any inline citations to support your views. There is a lot to be said about the hearing modality that was not on the Auditory system Wiki as of yesterday.
Do you plan to expand the Auditory system Wiki yourself in the near future. If so, I will await your changes. Otherwise I would appreciate it if we talked before you undo more material. Steamboat Jim ( talk) 02:38, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
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I've noticed that you've made many edits on the page dating back to March or so. I don't recall having problems with them, but I'll review them.
My problem with Niteshift is that his edits in the vast majority, when he's not just changing a misspelling, seem to be to whitewash GEO's record. He viciously attacks anyone who disagrees with him when he's clearly wrong, spewing vulgarities and abuse. His lack of control makes me wonder about his mental state.
What kind of an editor would tell me to "go fuck" myself, or call well sourced info that I've added to the GEO pages, "bullshit?" I don't know if there's a word "Wikibullying," but given his behavior I expect there should be.
The corporation has been scrubbing negatives from its site for a long time, at least 4 1/2 years. The February/March dustup emanating from the massive edits by Abraham Cohen and his constantly changing cover up stories and going to an unregistered (with Wikipedia) IPN to scrub some more was just the latest.
Niteshift36, by the way, clearly condoned and minimized that corporate vandalism. He has been regular apologist for the corporation since the Cohen matter surfaced nationally (which, if remember correctly, with the FAU situation, he dismissed as "recentism").
For instance:
(cur | prev) 20:37, 14 April 2009 Pabloepaez (talk | contribs) . . (17,596 bytes) (-4) . . (→Controversy) (undo | thank) (cur | prev) 20:36, 14 April 2009 Pabloepaez (talk | contribs) . . (17,600 bytes) (+11,461) . . (Updated Relevant Company Information based on Federal filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as public media reports. References are included within updated sections.) (undo | thank)
Pablo Paez is GEO's spokesperson.
By their actions, these guys are attacking Wikipedia's credibility. Shouldn't that count for something, with other editors in particular?
In the first of those edits above Paez heaped volumes of boiler plate on the corporation's page. I might note that no one busted him for it. He even eliminated the heading "Controversy" from the article.
You might want "better" sources than Mother Jones but it has been publishing hard copy for many decades and has a stellar record for accuracy, probably much better than CBS long term. The article that Niteshift36 erased was written by an author who I've been reading for many decades, and though I have occasionally had divergent opinions about his articles, he is an extremely solid reporter.
MJ has won many National Magazine and other awards. They've been on line for 20 years, longer than any competitor. They became famous in 1986 for firing Michael Moore. They note in their "About" section that he sued them and used his winnings to finance "Roger and Me."
I added the article about their infamous Reeves County, Texas, prison. It was written by a investigative reporter, James Ridgeway with impeccable credentials. Like Moore, Niteshift36 might not like him, but he's had one hell of a career. Check out the AP picture in the MJ article. It's worth at least a 1,000 words, after its prisoners "voted with their matches" after GEO killed off some prisoners through neglect. They were eventually sued and lost big, if memory serves.
(By the way, I find the AP to be a hell of a lot less reliable than MJ. I started paying attention to their shortcomings in 1992 or so when their reporter claimed that 110 meter WR holder Roger Kingdom ran a "slow" 13.20 in Japan. I doubt if ten people in the world had ever run that fast, up to that time. The more I paid attention, the more I realized that they had some reporters that were downright awful, and others who should have received Pulitzer consideration.)
/info/en/?search=Mother_Jones_(magazine)
Here's a Wikipedia capsulation of Ridgeway's career since the '60s. The guy is 77 years old and he's still doing great work because he loves his job.
Career history
Ridgeway began his career as a contributor to The New Republic, Ramparts, and The Wall Street Journal. Later, he was co-founder and editor of the political newsletters Mayday, Hard Times and The Elements. Ridgeway became nationally known when he revealed in The New Republic that General Motors had hired private detectives to tail consumer advocate Ralph Nader in an attempt to dig up information that might discredit him (Nader was behind litigation which challenged the safety of the Chevrolet Corvair). Ridgeway's revelations of the company's snooping and dirty tricks prompted a Senate subcommittee led by Senator Abraham Ribicoff to summon James Roche, president of GM, to explain his company's harassment — and apologize. The incident catapulted auto safety into the public spotlight and helped send Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed (1965), to the top of the bestseller lists.[1] He served as Washington correspondent for The Village Voice where he worked from the mid-1970s until April 2006. Following his departure from the Voice, Ridgeway was hired by Mother Jones to run its Washington DC bureau. On April 13, 2006's Democracy Now! broadcast, Ridgeway told host Amy Goodman that Michael Lacey, the executive editor of the Voice, "killed my column, and he asked me to submit ideas for articles to him one by one, which I did, and which he either ignored or turned down, except in one case...they won't say that I'm fired. I'm supposedly laid off." [2] Books, films and periodical credits
Ridgeway is the author and/or editor of twenty books, including The Closed Corporation: American Universities in Crisis, The Politics of Ecology, and, more recently, The 5 Unanswered Questions About 9/11... He was extensively interviewed for An Unreasonable Man, a 2007 documentary about Ralph Nader.
His articles have appeared in The New York Review of Books, PARADE, Harper's, The Nation, Dollars & Sense,[5]The Economist, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and other magazines and newspapers.
Salon is also a publication with an excellent record. I disagree with them sometimes, agree at others, some like Camille Paglia make me crazy, but they indisputably hire very good people, including some of the touchier ones who resent editors and leave of their own accord. They publish work by excellent freelancers as well. They are often way ahead of the MSM on issues of considerable import.
You mentioned another publication in your comments and I can't recall which that one was, but I'd be happy to go back and comment on it also, if you'd like.
Please do take a look at what Niteshift eliminated wholesale from my edits, claiming essentially that none of the edits I'd done were useful or correct. Activist ( talk) 06:21, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Off to bed, but one last comment. Slate, which I read occasionally, has been around since 1996 and has been owned for some time by the Washington Post. "Legit" enough? Activist ( talk) 10:05, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear "Eflat major,"
You wrote, in response to my comments:
Thanks for your comments on my talk page. I have no problem with Slate, Salon, Motherjones, or for that matter DemocracyNow or RealNews, in fact I think all of these do great journalism. But the way I understand Wikipedia, most of what appears in these venues would be considered primary sources (investigative journalism) or opinion pieces and hence not appropriate as references for encyclopedia articles, especially controversial ones. If there is a fact that is worth mentioning in an encyclopedia article, it should probably have a secondary source at least somewhere in the news media, or at least an official primary source (like a court document or something). I'm sure I don't have to remind you about WP:PRIMARY and that Wikipedia itself is an encyclopedia, a tertiary source, and hence relies on secondary sources for credibility.
If the "fact" is a mere claim made in a venue such as those above without any other confirming source, it is not appropriate as a reference on Wikipedia.
In some venues such as those, there are plenty of cited sources for a story that would be fine references. Other times, referencing links are internal, dead, or missing. This does not mean that there is anything necessarily wrong with the original story; it could be investigative, the sources could be anonymous, etc. But it does mean, in the view of this editor, that it is not an encyclopedia source. For instance, your motherjones link you're pushing on the GEO article is turning up next to nothing. Nevertheless I'm keeping track of a few leads that may be able to make their way into the article in some relevant form. Speaking of this, I'm going to take the rest of this issue to the talk page at the GEO article, where most of this should be voiced anyway. Eflatmajor7th (talk) 00:33, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
What we're talking about here is encyclopedia articles, their content, and the references for that content. You were trying to use the motherjones article as a reference that a particular facility exists. That, as I said, is pointless. Instead I used "some GEO Group corporate boiler plate"; of course I did, because that's the easiest reference to use for a trivial fact. What is not trivial is WHETHER that fact belongs in the article. This was the relevant discussion to have, which I had, with Niteshift on the talk page, while you were busy composing a summary of geopolitics for me. The Reeves facility is now mentioned in the article in case you hadn't noticed.
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@ Niteshift36: I've been involved in disagreements with editor Niteshift36 for years, usually about articles in which GEO Group was somewhat or primarily involved. We just had other editors at ANI make comments and offer helpful suggestions about achieving resolutions of those impasses. I made some prior and subsequent edits to the Broward Transition Center article. I noticed that you'd authored it, and made the bulk of the contributions to it, before my own edits. Niteshift36 reverted parts of my edits, so I asked that we try to resolve the differences of opinion on the article's TALK page. In doing so, I noticed that you and Niteshift36 had a prior difference of opinion about it which you resolved amicably between you. If you have the time, I wonder if you might take a look at the status of the article and those edits, as you might have suggestions as how this process might be conducted in a less tempestuous manner between the two of us. Activist ( talk) 07:08, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
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I would like to discuss why you decided to undo my edit without even talking about it with me or others, and without providing any inline citations to support your views. There is a lot to be said about the hearing modality that was not on the Auditory system Wiki as of yesterday.
Do you plan to expand the Auditory system Wiki yourself in the near future. If so, I will await your changes. Otherwise I would appreciate it if we talked before you undo more material. Steamboat Jim ( talk) 02:38, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
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I've noticed that you've made many edits on the page dating back to March or so. I don't recall having problems with them, but I'll review them.
My problem with Niteshift is that his edits in the vast majority, when he's not just changing a misspelling, seem to be to whitewash GEO's record. He viciously attacks anyone who disagrees with him when he's clearly wrong, spewing vulgarities and abuse. His lack of control makes me wonder about his mental state.
What kind of an editor would tell me to "go fuck" myself, or call well sourced info that I've added to the GEO pages, "bullshit?" I don't know if there's a word "Wikibullying," but given his behavior I expect there should be.
The corporation has been scrubbing negatives from its site for a long time, at least 4 1/2 years. The February/March dustup emanating from the massive edits by Abraham Cohen and his constantly changing cover up stories and going to an unregistered (with Wikipedia) IPN to scrub some more was just the latest.
Niteshift36, by the way, clearly condoned and minimized that corporate vandalism. He has been regular apologist for the corporation since the Cohen matter surfaced nationally (which, if remember correctly, with the FAU situation, he dismissed as "recentism").
For instance:
(cur | prev) 20:37, 14 April 2009 Pabloepaez (talk | contribs) . . (17,596 bytes) (-4) . . (→Controversy) (undo | thank) (cur | prev) 20:36, 14 April 2009 Pabloepaez (talk | contribs) . . (17,600 bytes) (+11,461) . . (Updated Relevant Company Information based on Federal filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as public media reports. References are included within updated sections.) (undo | thank)
Pablo Paez is GEO's spokesperson.
By their actions, these guys are attacking Wikipedia's credibility. Shouldn't that count for something, with other editors in particular?
In the first of those edits above Paez heaped volumes of boiler plate on the corporation's page. I might note that no one busted him for it. He even eliminated the heading "Controversy" from the article.
You might want "better" sources than Mother Jones but it has been publishing hard copy for many decades and has a stellar record for accuracy, probably much better than CBS long term. The article that Niteshift36 erased was written by an author who I've been reading for many decades, and though I have occasionally had divergent opinions about his articles, he is an extremely solid reporter.
MJ has won many National Magazine and other awards. They've been on line for 20 years, longer than any competitor. They became famous in 1986 for firing Michael Moore. They note in their "About" section that he sued them and used his winnings to finance "Roger and Me."
I added the article about their infamous Reeves County, Texas, prison. It was written by a investigative reporter, James Ridgeway with impeccable credentials. Like Moore, Niteshift36 might not like him, but he's had one hell of a career. Check out the AP picture in the MJ article. It's worth at least a 1,000 words, after its prisoners "voted with their matches" after GEO killed off some prisoners through neglect. They were eventually sued and lost big, if memory serves.
(By the way, I find the AP to be a hell of a lot less reliable than MJ. I started paying attention to their shortcomings in 1992 or so when their reporter claimed that 110 meter WR holder Roger Kingdom ran a "slow" 13.20 in Japan. I doubt if ten people in the world had ever run that fast, up to that time. The more I paid attention, the more I realized that they had some reporters that were downright awful, and others who should have received Pulitzer consideration.)
/info/en/?search=Mother_Jones_(magazine)
Here's a Wikipedia capsulation of Ridgeway's career since the '60s. The guy is 77 years old and he's still doing great work because he loves his job.
Career history
Ridgeway began his career as a contributor to The New Republic, Ramparts, and The Wall Street Journal. Later, he was co-founder and editor of the political newsletters Mayday, Hard Times and The Elements. Ridgeway became nationally known when he revealed in The New Republic that General Motors had hired private detectives to tail consumer advocate Ralph Nader in an attempt to dig up information that might discredit him (Nader was behind litigation which challenged the safety of the Chevrolet Corvair). Ridgeway's revelations of the company's snooping and dirty tricks prompted a Senate subcommittee led by Senator Abraham Ribicoff to summon James Roche, president of GM, to explain his company's harassment — and apologize. The incident catapulted auto safety into the public spotlight and helped send Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed (1965), to the top of the bestseller lists.[1] He served as Washington correspondent for The Village Voice where he worked from the mid-1970s until April 2006. Following his departure from the Voice, Ridgeway was hired by Mother Jones to run its Washington DC bureau. On April 13, 2006's Democracy Now! broadcast, Ridgeway told host Amy Goodman that Michael Lacey, the executive editor of the Voice, "killed my column, and he asked me to submit ideas for articles to him one by one, which I did, and which he either ignored or turned down, except in one case...they won't say that I'm fired. I'm supposedly laid off." [2] Books, films and periodical credits
Ridgeway is the author and/or editor of twenty books, including The Closed Corporation: American Universities in Crisis, The Politics of Ecology, and, more recently, The 5 Unanswered Questions About 9/11... He was extensively interviewed for An Unreasonable Man, a 2007 documentary about Ralph Nader.
His articles have appeared in The New York Review of Books, PARADE, Harper's, The Nation, Dollars & Sense,[5]The Economist, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and other magazines and newspapers.
Salon is also a publication with an excellent record. I disagree with them sometimes, agree at others, some like Camille Paglia make me crazy, but they indisputably hire very good people, including some of the touchier ones who resent editors and leave of their own accord. They publish work by excellent freelancers as well. They are often way ahead of the MSM on issues of considerable import.
You mentioned another publication in your comments and I can't recall which that one was, but I'd be happy to go back and comment on it also, if you'd like.
Please do take a look at what Niteshift eliminated wholesale from my edits, claiming essentially that none of the edits I'd done were useful or correct. Activist ( talk) 06:21, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Off to bed, but one last comment. Slate, which I read occasionally, has been around since 1996 and has been owned for some time by the Washington Post. "Legit" enough? Activist ( talk) 10:05, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear "Eflat major,"
You wrote, in response to my comments:
Thanks for your comments on my talk page. I have no problem with Slate, Salon, Motherjones, or for that matter DemocracyNow or RealNews, in fact I think all of these do great journalism. But the way I understand Wikipedia, most of what appears in these venues would be considered primary sources (investigative journalism) or opinion pieces and hence not appropriate as references for encyclopedia articles, especially controversial ones. If there is a fact that is worth mentioning in an encyclopedia article, it should probably have a secondary source at least somewhere in the news media, or at least an official primary source (like a court document or something). I'm sure I don't have to remind you about WP:PRIMARY and that Wikipedia itself is an encyclopedia, a tertiary source, and hence relies on secondary sources for credibility.
If the "fact" is a mere claim made in a venue such as those above without any other confirming source, it is not appropriate as a reference on Wikipedia.
In some venues such as those, there are plenty of cited sources for a story that would be fine references. Other times, referencing links are internal, dead, or missing. This does not mean that there is anything necessarily wrong with the original story; it could be investigative, the sources could be anonymous, etc. But it does mean, in the view of this editor, that it is not an encyclopedia source. For instance, your motherjones link you're pushing on the GEO article is turning up next to nothing. Nevertheless I'm keeping track of a few leads that may be able to make their way into the article in some relevant form. Speaking of this, I'm going to take the rest of this issue to the talk page at the GEO article, where most of this should be voiced anyway. Eflatmajor7th (talk) 00:33, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
What we're talking about here is encyclopedia articles, their content, and the references for that content. You were trying to use the motherjones article as a reference that a particular facility exists. That, as I said, is pointless. Instead I used "some GEO Group corporate boiler plate"; of course I did, because that's the easiest reference to use for a trivial fact. What is not trivial is WHETHER that fact belongs in the article. This was the relevant discussion to have, which I had, with Niteshift on the talk page, while you were busy composing a summary of geopolitics for me. The Reeves facility is now mentioned in the article in case you hadn't noticed.
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@ Niteshift36: I've been involved in disagreements with editor Niteshift36 for years, usually about articles in which GEO Group was somewhat or primarily involved. We just had other editors at ANI make comments and offer helpful suggestions about achieving resolutions of those impasses. I made some prior and subsequent edits to the Broward Transition Center article. I noticed that you'd authored it, and made the bulk of the contributions to it, before my own edits. Niteshift36 reverted parts of my edits, so I asked that we try to resolve the differences of opinion on the article's TALK page. In doing so, I noticed that you and Niteshift36 had a prior difference of opinion about it which you resolved amicably between you. If you have the time, I wonder if you might take a look at the status of the article and those edits, as you might have suggestions as how this process might be conducted in a less tempestuous manner between the two of us. Activist ( talk) 07:08, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
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