User talk:KenWalker/Archive May 2008

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Klinaklini River & advocacy/POV watch...

On the heels of our other advocacy deletions, I just did the same on Klinaklini River; at first I was only going to get rid of the advocacy link and trim the POV-ness out of the new text....then I found out that hte new text was a copy-paste, with a tweak or two, directly from the advocacy site; the tip-off was the use of "Coastal Mountain Range" and you'll see in the edit comments what I think of environmentalists who don't know proper geographic toponymy for the areas they're advocating for (which is how the abominable "South Chilcotin" got its yecccch name). I flet a bit bad about this because it's earnest enough; I just wish people, companies or enviro types, wouldn't use Wikipedia as something like a Facebook page, a place to thump the bandwagon. We've got to vet a template/welcome about this, taht their advocacy isn't welcome but anything NPOV that they can add to an article is more than welcome, and not to treat this as an oportunity for p.r. for their cause etc.....Anyway, another one for the watchlist; I'm almost thinking of keeping a sandbox-list of pages like this we have to keep a watch on because of all the politics....Skookum1 (talk) 16:08, 2 May 2008 (UTC)