tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061799050413445026.post200337114207993922..comments2024-03-02T23:26:33.502-08:00Comments on Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia: Paul Kurtz - We Got Your Wiki Back! sgerbichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14354138750695010886noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061799050413445026.post-8001190271549478982012-10-25T15:16:01.187-07:002012-10-25T15:16:01.187-07:00Nathan -
Many people find the Wikipedia syntax co...Nathan - <br />Many people find the Wikipedia syntax confusing and the community rules are downright frustrating. We are lucky to have Susan and her team to act as our advocates in that regard. Perhaps providing them with the information and letting them synthesize it into the wiki page would be the best approach.Mike Friendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17466949726616926773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061799050413445026.post-4704737419985522712012-10-25T13:46:03.843-07:002012-10-25T13:46:03.843-07:00I apologize and retract my last comment. The perso...<br />I apologize and retract my last comment. The person who brought this to my attention evidently misunderstood the way the links work on Wiki, saying, "they only go to another wiki page not to websites." Nathan Bupphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08624359663920243468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061799050413445026.post-68931882359546659122012-10-25T11:43:04.632-07:002012-10-25T11:43:04.632-07:00Ms. sgerbic:
You say you have "Paul Kurtz...<br />Ms. sgerbic:<br /><br />You say you have "Paul Kurtz's back." Please make sure that you are not also stabbing him in the back in the process. While I completely agree with you that inaccurate assertions should be challenged, it has been brought to my attention that you are actually undoing the live links within the text to Paul's organizations The Institute for Science and Human Values and journal The Human Prospect. This is petty and quite unbecoming for an official Wiki editor. The links are going to be restored, as they should be. Please do not disable them.<br /><br />Thank you,<br />Nathan Bupp<br />Institute for Science and Human Values Nathan Bupphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08624359663920243468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061799050413445026.post-11035330832863303472012-10-23T14:39:46.225-07:002012-10-23T14:39:46.225-07:00This obit by R. Joseph Hoffmann does a good job of...This obit by R. Joseph Hoffmann does a good job of explaining Kurtz's views on the new atheism and religion: http://www.rjosephhoffmann.com/2012/10/23/paul-kurtz-december-21-1925-%E2%80%93-october-20-2012/Lippardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16826768452963498005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1061799050413445026.post-17640880989299019922012-10-23T07:25:28.222-07:002012-10-23T07:25:28.222-07:00"Upon being forced out of the Center for Inqu..."Upon being forced out of the Center for Inquiry, by the board and management for power and control of the vast network and holdings he had envisioned, developed, managed and maintained for decades, he launched the Institute for Science and Human Values as a separate entity."<br /><br />While this sentence is essentially true, it is somewhat tendentious and incomplete in its description of the facts. The "forced out" part was a democratic process, for example, and the person left in charge as Kurtz's successor, Ron Lindsay, is someone Kurtz had supported to be his successor.<br /><br />"trying to prove that Kurtz was opposed to militant atheists" -- this is also true, and was one of the points of contention in Kurtz's departure. Kurtz was never an American Atheists-style attacker of religion. This is, however, slightly ironic in that Kurtz himself had been criticized for years for combining humanism and skepticism under the CFI umbrella by skeptics. (This was largely done behind the scenes, though it would sometimes see public expression as in, for example, this 1999 letter to the editor of Skeptical Inquirer from leaders of local skeptical groups: http://www.discord.org/~lippard/skepticalinquirer-janfeb1999.html) Kurtz, however, thought they should be combined, and his personal emphasis was on the humanism side.Lippardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16826768452963498005noreply@blogger.com