Apparently the people who run Wikipedia welcome any kind of input which is posted by them without any kind of verification. Some of the raucous attacks on religious groups, political figures and historical events sound like the Daily Kos at full cry. Having some background in various historical subjects, we looked up specific subjects and discovered a porridge of fiction, prevarications and material that was to all intents and purposes, included for the purpose of disiniformation. Much of this is unsourced and as reference material, what we saw was completely worthless.

Inaccuracy and mendacity is not the main problem with Wikipedia. In a number of cases, persons who availed themselves of this service were immediately inundated with hundreds of emails on the topic they had just accessed.

In one case, a gentleman had searched for material on the Christian Gospels and within an hour, his mail box was stuffed with religious notices, fact sheets, requests for money and other support. Most of these obnoxious and unwanted communications came from Evangelical Christian groups. In the first week, this individual received over 700 emails and by the end of the month, the total had exceeded 2000.

Even more obnoxious were problems encountered by a woman whose 14 year old daughter had consulted Wikipedia on the subject of abortion, information which she needed for a school paper on that subject. She had a similar experience to the first person cited. Within minutes of closing down the Wikipedia site, this girl had received over 200 emails, mostly from religious, anti-abortion organizations and by the end of the month, the total had swelled to 3000 emails!

Needless to say, the mail boxes of both parties were jammed to the point that they were unable to receive any other emails. Both parties tried to contact Wikipedia personnel to complain but to date, there has been no response of any kind. This lack of concern is apparently standard.

The question arises, obviously, as to how the spammers obtained the email addresses of the victims. In the two cases cited above, neither had ventured into the fields of interest before. Perhaps the proprietors of the site have found a way to make a profit from their “free site.”

There are a number of firms that advertise “free credit reports” to all and sundry but again, we have received dozens of complaints that there are no “free credit reports” to be had. One individual of our acquaintance, with excellent credit, was told that his report could not be sent over the internet but had to be personally mailed and of course there was a fee. We have it on excellent authority that this is a standard practice.

Remember the statement that “there ain’t no free lunch?” It’s true. And no “free credit reports” either.

For those seeking accurate and sane information on diverse subjects, we heartily recommend the Encyclopedia Britannica site. Their reputation is quite beyond reproach and no one of our acquaintance has ever received hundreds of obnoxious spam messages because of their search for information there. Editor

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The Wikipedia Reality

by Phillip Kushner

December 7th 2006

I do have a comment regarding your article on Wikipedia. It's been long known with many people that Wikipedia is a source of huge disinformation, as well as censorship. But your information does come as a huge surprise, and I am VERY glad you have brought this up in your site (and I believe I speak for a lot of others too). I'm not a guy who consults Wikipedia for "accurate information", unless it's for an animal, computers, or any other subjects that are not politcal related. But now, thanks to your article, I won't even do that. A lot of articles regarding 9/11, including the fact the buildings went down by pre-emptive controlled thermate demolitions, have been taken off the "free encyclopedia" without any reason whatsoever. Just go to Google and type in "Wikipedia" and you'll find one of the professors speaking out against their censorship. Many articles by 9/11 truth movements have been censored for no reason, which leads to the conclusion that Wikipedia is a Zionist propoganda source.

And yes, regarding your question of how they find out user info. It's quite easy. First of all, they may be recording down your IP address, from which they can make a trace of your home address as well as to whom the computer has been registered too. They can do this by two ways: 1.) But installing a software on their site which automatically records down the IP address, name, as well as home and email address of the person to whom the particular computer is registered with. 2.) By installing "cookies" in the IE Temporary Files folder that later "tails" the user's internet browsing activities.

Second of all, as I mentioned, this is a huge Zionist propoganda source. So big and influential individuals are companies may be involved that do a lot of surveillance for the purpose of selling the private information, even to the government. Most of the times, these companies act as a joint organizations with a different names and possibly share in the profits of selling "leads" to businesses, and useful information to the government. All the big companies like Yahoo and Google are now in too, which store all your "search" information in their database (back to probably six years), as well as your previous emails (even the deleted ones!!).