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Netscott
Netscott is the user name for Scott Stevenson.
My Wikipedia Contributions
- My meta creations
- tlinks then you've seen Tnavbar at work. This template has proved amazingly popular
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- My article creations
- Optical levitation
- Spin stabilized magnetic levitation
- Leona Woods
- Keif al-hal?
- Descriptions of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons a breakout article from a section I had heavily edited on the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversyarticle.
- Significant article contributions
- Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
- Muhammad
- Depictions of Muhammad
- Islamophobia
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Michael Richards
- Levitron
- Cardinal Newman High School
- El Fagr
- Infidel
My disdain for soapboxing on Wikipedia
One of the unfortunate aspects of Wikipedia is how it can be abused as a political and religious propaganda tool.
In my editing I try to make efforts to reduce these abuses but frequently it seems pointless when others don't
take notice of this abuse and assist to reduce its prevalence.
Currently, some of the articles that best exemplify the usage of Wikipedia as propaganda tool are the following:
In these last two cases Wikipedia is being utilized to lend credence to these neologisms. The reason this is bad is that these terms
are both frequently used to quash valid criticisms of their respectively related ideologies.
The term "Islamophobia" is frequently used in efforts to silence those who make valid criticisms about Islam.
The phrase "New antisemitism" is frequently used in efforts to silence those who make valid criticisms about Israel and Zionism.
Unfortunately these abuses can extend to other articles that are related to these two terms.
This is currently the case with the Zionism article where in the terminology section there is a quote from Walter Laqueur
that is in effect stating the core tenet of the concept of "New antisemitism" that antisemites utilize the term "Anti-Zionism" as a euphamism for
antisemitism. As the article stands now there is no counterpoint to this quote. The reason this is bad is that such wording has a chilling effect on
those who otherwise would not be hesitant in expressing valid criticisms regarding Israel and Zionism.
This is not the first time that editors have utilized the Zionism article in this way and I suspect it will not be the last. (→Netscott) 07:09, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Contentious editing
Do you believe you have a valid point of contention about my edits and would like the whole world to know it the moment they come to my user page?
Here's your chance!
If you can competently argue for why any of my edits are less than valid and you feel a need to vent, please first post something bordering on insult about my edit (certainly not about me, remember
On second thought, if you simply want to insult my edit(s)/argument(s)/view(s) then by all means, do so here but do your best to remain
Comments:
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The Islamic Barnstar Award
Awarded by Timothy Usher on June 1, 2006 for your relentless defense of reason on Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy |