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\nHi Blog. \u00a0Last August I began taking on Wikipedia’s heavily-biased (even by its own standards) entry on Arudou Debito<\/a>, pointing out some systemic flaws in the media: \u00a0among other things<\/a>, how all manner of anonymous people can launder quotes and alleged criticisms by citing websites as if they were genuine publications (and their authors as if they were established authorities in the field), yet omit published third-party sources and comments by true authorities just because they were archived on Debito.org (or just because they don’t fit in as “Criticisms”, wink). \u00a0It was a good discussion<\/a>, but now that it’s died down, the Wikipedia entry is just steadily reverting back to the same old biased and laundered references, and losing impartiality all over again. \u00a0(And I’m not even bothering with the Japanese version of the entry<\/a> — there’s no saving it from anonymous net denizens without even an inkling of integrity.) \u00a0So forget it. \u00a0Wikipedia as a medium is probably unredeemable in its present form.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, arising is an alternative — Citizendium<\/a>, where contributors must have verified identities. and articles cannot be so easily defaced at whim<\/a>. \u00a0I like how the article on Arudou Debito has come out so far there. \u00a0Reproduced below. \u00a0I suggest readers start switching to Citizendium<\/a>\u00a0particularly when it comes to information on contentious topics and people. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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\nArudou Debito is a Japanese teacher, author and activist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Arudou Debito<\/strong>\u00a0(\u6709\u9053\u51fa\u4eba; born 1965) is a\u00a0Japanese<\/a>\u00a0human rights<\/a>\u00a0activist<\/a>, teacher and author. Arudou was born and brought up in the\u00a0United States<\/a>\u00a0and became a\u00a0naturalised<\/a>\u00a0Japanese\u00a0citizen<\/a>\u00a0in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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