[lbo-talk] Fun with Wikipedia

[Tom Walker]

Last October I noticed that Wikipedia had an entry on the lump-of-labour 
fallacy, an obscure matter about which I know quite a bit. So I added a 
few paragraphs to balance off the received ideas that were inelegantly 
parroted in the entry. A week ago, a self-described "PhD candidate" and 
guardian of the status quo deleted my edits and offered his or her 
expert opinion on my lack of credentials and faulty logic. Not being one 
to carry on debates with ignoramouses, I'm walking away from that 
futility but not before offering LBO subscribers the titillating 
opportunity to view a real-life re-enactment of the Monty Python 
argument clinic sketch. The numbered points are mine; the indented 
responses were added by the deletist "PhD candidate." My only question 
is what motivates such ferocious attachment to... what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lump_of_labour_fallacy#What_is_wrong_with_this_article.3F

The Sandwichman