The genius of Wikipedia is that those who hold minority, alternative or niche views can add their little bit to an article or provide an external link to a page they have created, giving readers an opportunity to savor a wide range of views and thus expand their horizons.
Unfortunately, the world is full of self-righteous individuals and organizations who behave like influence peddling warlords in their efforts to smother debate and eliminate any evidence of views they disagree with. Disciplines which are open to interpretation (i.e. everything) are fair game for these self-styled powerbrokers, who don’t accept that they don’t own the rights to whole areas of investigation and that their attempts to filter knowledge by their gate keeping activities damages the integrity of Wikipedia by creating an imbalance in the description of a topic.
Below are just a couple of articles on this issue. A Google search will reveal thousands of complaints. What drew my attention to this problem was the persistence of one of these misguided do-gooders in removing links to my articles on dreams. Why would anyone do that? What’s their problem?
