Talk:Transhumanist politics/Archive 4
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micronations and IEET and tag needed to indicate COI editing
On February 10, the IEET website posted an essay, and on the same day the same person or presumably someone associated revised this article to cite that, with a passage about micronations. The passage was already tagged by another editor (H-F) as synthesis. From what I recall from my reading of the February 10 source, I don't believe the article change was justified; I think I am agreeing with H-F and I am seeking to resolve the problem by removing the material (which I have just done in the article). As I recall the source commented about transhumanists' interest in micronations, but the source did not imply that transhumanists were opposed to micronations which is what the editing here implied.
What bothers me more is that it appears IEET is posting material in its blog and also editing this Wikipedia article. This Wikipedia article has had enough problems previously from Zoltan Istvan supporters editing in factually incorrect information and dubious claims. It seemed that the Zoltan Istvan campaign was solely focussed on editing this and related Wikipedia articles, with no other activities at all, for a while. Now, it appears that IEET is engaging in Wikipedia editing inappropriately. A bothersome thing about IEET blog is that it gives a posting date which is current as of IEET adding an essay or other material, but IEET in at least some cases does not disclose the actual publication date of the essay or material. So IEET seems deliberately unprofessional and unreliable for that reason, and in general I tend to think that all IEET sources should be removed.
I rather expect that there is other material in this article edited in by IEET staff without their disclosing their identity and Conflict Of Interest. So a COI tag on this article is probably appropriate. I'll look for the appropriate tag if someone else does not add one soon. --doncram 07:09, 12 February 2016 (UTC)