Wikipedia describes DU as a Catholic community. Wha?

[Beartracks]

Last edited Fri Jan 6, 2012, 11:14 PM - Edit history (1)

Didn't know where to post this, so I thought I'd ask here.

The Wikipedia.com article on DU notes right in the first sentence that DU is "an online community for Catholic U.S. Democrats progressives." Huh?? Later on, the article explains how the site is biased in favor of Catholicism, and how some members and moderators are hyper vigilant in suppressing Protestant viewpoints.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Underground

Maybe I'm just way to infrequent here, but, if anything, the forums outside of the Religion groups seem to me to be generally anti-religion or non-religious. I see far more posts regarding religion as fairy tales and superstition than I do arguing that one flavor of religion is better than others.

Is the Wiki article accurate, out-dated, or simply hacked?

[handmade34]

1. this needs attention!!!!

[Beartracks]

3. Should I change the OP subject to highlight the problem?

Is that even possible?

On edit: Oh, yeah it is. That was easy!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Is the Wiki article accurate, out-dated, or simply hacked? all three!

[freshwest]

5. Seems like some of it is a rightwing attack piece, but some seems correct.

Skinner, Elad or EarlG can go there and edit as they please. I can't tell when the page was created. I've known people who did edit articles there.

[Beartracks]

7. Here's the article discussion at Wikipedia

This is interesting. It's a record of discussion on edits, ranging from 2008 (maybe that's when the article was first generated?) to July 2011:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk emocratic_Underground

[freshwest]

9. Just saw your post, so it was there before the edit this month!

Do you have to be a member of Wikipedia to see the talk section?

[Beartracks]

16. Don't need to be a member

I clicked the "Discussion" tab as a mere casual visitor.

[freshwest]

12. But the Talk reference you posted is generic, not about that entry, though...

[Beartracks]

15. Sorry, the link went all smiley.

Sorry, the link translated the colon-D as a smiley face.

It's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk-COLON-Democratic_Underground , where -COLON- is replaced by an actual colon.

The Talk is linked through a tab right above the article title at the top of the page. By default, a visitor lands on "Article" tab, but the "Discussion" tab right next to it is what I clicked.

Hm. Also at the top left of the article is a "View History" tab.

[freshwest]

21. Well, I think you can just make a post in Meta about someone vandalizing the DU Wikipedia page.

Hopefully, the person cited at the end of the wiki page was not the one banned today. The page cites someone who wrote a dissertation on DU to get a Ph. D. in media, allegedly.

Google shows this from the name cited: "Jeanette Castillo - Professor, writer, producer, student of tricksterism - FSU - Seize the tools and tell your story."

https://plus.google.com/111122069527354947112#111122069527354947112/posts

It may not be the SAME person though, I simply can't tell. I'm sure whoever it was wasn't banned for not being a Catholic, no doubt this person committed some other dumbassery.

If the 'trickerism' part is correct, this is a person who has been attending universities across the country. We don't know.

[freshwest]

4. Shouldn't this be sent Skinner? He can correct it if he wants to do so.

Or else in the Meta forum, but I think that it'd be better to get it directly to the Admins, etc. I had no idea there was a Wikipedia page on DU. Thanks, that was an interesting read with history, but somewhat biased, maybe. Definitely not current and no mention of DU3.

A Jeanette Castillo in Florida is cited as having gotten her Ph. D from an dissertation of DU. No telling if that's true, though.

[Beartracks]

6. How does one send a DU thread link?

I don't mean to sound ignorant, but I know it's not a matter of copying the whole URL from the browser. How can I produce a "short link" that goes right to this thread?

[freshwest]

10. You mean here in the Lounge or the one from Wikipedia? I don't see any problem with copying and

Pasting the browser address bar.

[rug]

8. Here's a clue.

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=279708

Here's another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democratic_Underground&action=history

Looks like somebody was pissed off after being revoked.

[freshwest]

11. Sure does, that was quick and this is a smear against DU. Someone should inform Skinner, et al.

[rug]

13. I posted it in Help & Meta.

I'll send this thread to Skinner.

[Beartracks]

18. Wow, I only just now realized how new all that was.

Before today, I didn't even know DU had a Wikipedia article, but I just happened to look for it tonight out of curiosity.

Parts of it did certainly read like they were contributed by someone who felt slighted. I see now that that is absolutely correct.

[Skinner]

14. If anyone wants to fix that, you are welcome to do so.

It's Wikipedia, after all. You don't need my permission to edit.

[nolabear]

17. What a lazy hack. Hardly put their back into it.

Catholic? Geez. I thought we were Scientologists.

[rug]

20. Xenu?

[struggle4progress]

19. seems to have been fixed for the time being but the wiki article is way out of date

[Xipe Totec]

22. It's a typo. They meant cat-aholic. nt

[BiggJawn]

23. I knew it!

But I never suspected the religion that gave us the Spanish Inquisition...

[Beartracks]

24. NObody did! n/t

[Renew Deal]

25. DU is a community of devout Catholic Democrats!

Haven't you noticed the picture of the pope on the top of the website?

[Beartracks]

26. Who's the man sticking his head out of Benedict's left ear? n/t

[krispos42]

27. Rick Santorum

Although he's actually being sucked INTO the pope's ear.

You can guess how he gets out.



So I guess that makes him, in that picture, Rick pre-Santorum.