Welcome to Ziopedia (tm), a reverse Robin Hood venture

Before donating your time or money to this project consider these points:

• You'd be wasting your time:

This project has attracted many because anyone can contribute (but see some fine-print below.) However, a reference work written by "anyone" is a contradiction in terms.

• You'd be helping promote a racist/imperial worldview:

The owner of this outfit and the majority of his lieutenants (board, arbs and admins) are pro-Zionists.

In the last 3 months, four editors who tried to add the neutral-point-of view balance to Israel-related aticles were banned from Wikipedia (another one is expected to be banned soon.) In the same time-frame, four editors who were persistently biasing articles in favor of Israel were let go free (one has even had his previous sentence reduced.) Simply skim any of the articles related to Israel and draw your own conclusion.

Most non-science articles exhibit clear bias: neocon, right-wing, USA, Western.

• You'd be merely enriching a private venture rather than some common good:

Below the thin PR veneer of a community run public/non-profit org, this venture is actually owned and run by one person. Read that again.

Prior to asking for public donations, the owner financed this project by selling titillating images of women's flesh. There is no indication that the owner's nature has since changed. On the contrary, he recently opposed posting a link for donations for tsunami victims on the home page.

This project was not created for the public benefit, but for the owner to some day cash in on the huge quantity of "stuff" created for free by others. Despite the questionable quality, he is likely to benefit: the sheer volume is at least worth something in terms of potential (low-Q) eyeballs for ads. The public, however, is unlikely to ever benefit from this shovel-ware collection of mostly random musings which often change without notice or discernible cause.

Worse yet, even if all of the above appeals to you because you are part of the cabal, you are still doomed because Ziopedia will never become a credible source of information. Period.

HistoryBuffEr 06:10, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)