[Milsurplus] Wikipedia slant

[Dennis DuVall]

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Dennis D.  W7QHO
Glendale, CA

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> On Jan 27, 2016, at 4:11 PM, Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
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> I noticed the  Wikipedia bio of Capt. Miles R. Browning, a hero of the Battle of Midway, who was later relieved from CO of the carrier Hornet
> and sent back to the States, says he was relieved after an incident where during a movie showing, a seaman fell overboard and drowned. 
> This makes it sound like he was merely present during an unfortunate incident. However the book "Dauntless Helldivers" by Harold Buell,
> who was there, clarifies that Browning refused to set a search for the man or to call a muster of the ship's crew. And that this was the
> fourth incident since his captaincy of the Hornet, which included a near-grounding and a near collision - while he was on the conn. 
>  
> Another Wikipedia partial-truth example i saw: the bio of M. Gandhi. There is not very much, for example, on his advice to the Jews of
> Europe that they should surrender themselves to be massacred by the Nazis, or his advice to England to let the Nazis have any of their
> land or possessions they wanted. I did note on my recent visit to this text, that somebody else must have griped, because a couple years
> back there was nothing at all untoward about Gandhi; it was purest hagiography. 
>  
> So, remember, when you read a bio or some historical info on Wikipedia - be just a bit skeptical about the author's own agenda.
> -Hue Miller 
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