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Wikipedia expert — removal of Elizabeth Warren Cherokee controversy “contrary to Wikipedia rules”

Posted by 0387erp on January 09, 2013 31 Comments

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Cherokee controversy restored to Elizabeth Warren Wikipedia page

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2013 20 Comments

In my post yesterday, Elizabeth Warren Wikipedia page ethnically cleansed, I noted that the lengthy explanation of Elizabeth Warren’s false claim to be Cherokee had been almost entirely purged from Warren’s Wikipedia page. My post set off some pretty vigorous debate among editors at Wikipedia. One...

Elizabeth Warren Wikipedia page ethnically cleansed (Update — partial restoration)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 07, 2013 39 Comments

One of the greatest controversies surrounding Elizabeth Warren was her claim to be Native American, specifically Cherokee. The controversy was sparked in late April 2012, when the Boston Herald revealed that in the late 1990s Harvard Law School had promoted Warren as a Native American...

RNC Tuesday Night Open (Update – attempt to deface Mia Love Wikipedia page)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2012 54 Comments

The line up is packed tonight, including Mia Love, who just finished her speech: If you haven’t contributed to her Money Bomb, what are you waiting for? Need more motivation, read what some smug creep at The Nation says about people like Mia, RNC Schedule: Tokenism Extraordinaire. ...

Manipulating Wikipedia

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2012 29 Comments

In the continuing on-line war, Brett Kimberlin’s Wikipedia entry which documented his history has been taken down, and get this, the excuse given is that Kimberlin was the victim of a harrassment campaign. Patrick Frey, the victim of a true harrassment campaign, has the story:...

Wikipedia – Help!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2011 15 Comments

I didn’t know there was a Legal Insurrection entry at Wikipedia until I found out it had been deleted Can someone figure out what is going on? Here is the Google cache version, if that helps. I need to fix this before my in-laws find...

Happy Birthday, Wikipedia

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 15, 2011 5 Comments

As a history and philosophy major, I have to go through a battery of names and concepts in class in order to understand the more advanced concepts. I don’t think I would be able to complete half the background work that I do without Wikipedia,...

Is It Too Much To Ask That People Read The Wikipedia Entry To Which They Link?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2010 10 Comments

I expect it from TPM, which is peddling an overblown tape of Christine O’Donnell questioning — in 1996 — whether there had been a fair investigation of Vince Foster’s 1993 death. TPM tries to make a big deal out of this, but as even Matthew...

Next Time Call The Blogospheric Neologian, Not Wikipedia

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2009 7 Comments

There has been a little on-line spat brewing between Robert Stacy (the other) McCain, and one James B. Webb, which resulted in my memorable post Sitemeterenfreude (“deriving pleasure from the failure of other bloggers to generate traffic”) based on this McCain post mocking Webb’s failure...

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/johnny-micheal-spann.html

24 Years Ago Today – Johnny “Mike” Spann – CIA Officer And First American Killed In Afghanistan Post-9/11

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2025 6 Comments

Killed during the the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi 24 years ago today:.

Duffy Threatens to Withhold Millions From PA After Terror Suspect Received CDL

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 25, 2025 16 Comments

Federal agency may also decertify Pennsylvania’s CDL program.

Mamdani Drops the Mask to Reveal His True Self: ‘I am a Socialist’

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 05, 2025 96 Comments

"We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about."

https://x.com/theblaze/status/1978986147154944069

Everything You Need to Know About Key Races on Election Day

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 03, 2025 24 Comments

The Democrats and Republicans will use these races as guides for the 2026 midterms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m3aobhAVGE&t=5s

From Magna Carta to Denouncing the West: Is There Hope for the Great Albion?

Posted by Nora Dimitrova Clinton on October 11, 2025 5 Comments

The Brut Chronicle is a fascinating collection of Medieval manuscripts on the history of England. It follows in the footsteps of Greek and Roman mythology and recounts the story of the Giants of Albion, who were the early inhabitants — or, according to some, founders...

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