By William Pattison, aka Eric Morse
For Horror Bob's Blog
Wikipedia, which is supposedly a repository of all knowledge
for the internet, just recently deleted all knowledge of author Eric Morse (aka
William Pattison, aka Me) from their online database. The reason for this is
because former managing editor for Fangoria Magazine, Bob “Uncle Bob” Martin
complained saying that Eric Morse’s biography was “nothing but a vanity profile
that is totally fictitious.” Martin even had Morse’s reference and that of his
books in the section on the Friday the 13th franchise of Wikipedia taken
out and “some young adult novels by an author” put in their place. The reason
for this is because “Uncle Bob” said that none of the information in Morse’s
Wikipedia biography had sufficient references to reasonably verify the information.
When Bob Martin went on Eric Morse’s Facebook profile because Morse made a post
about the situation, he stated the fact that not only did he have both
references erased and made the claim that none of the references on the
biography were valid. Of course, after Uncle Bob stated this Wolf Pack Podcast
co-host Derek Young and Eric Morse produced twenty-five references in five
minutes that clearly supported everything on Eric Morse’s biography. Uncle Bob
had to back off and even gave Eric a link to a person at Wikipedia to talk to.
Yet, after this, Bob Martin went on to have two hundred people sign a petition
to have Eric Morse’s biography and any reference to the author and filmmaker
banned from being posted on Wikipedia. Since then six people have tried to
restore Eric Morse’s biography to the online database only to have their work
erased and them to get warnings from Wikipedia not to try again. Here is a
question for you, horror community, with all the hard work done by Uncle Bob
and others to have Eric Morse and his works erased, doesn’t that in it’s own
way prove that the author/filmmaker is either so very famous or so very
infamous that Wikipedia as the internet repository of knowledge for the
internet really does in fact need to reference him in order to maintain the
integrity of the accuracy and completeness of their data base? It is a major
fault in democracy that a loud minority can get power of over a silent and
disinterested minority. We see that all the time in the horror community with the
horror socials and how this small group manipulates things in the horror
community. The truth is that more than likely there are probably far more
people who are fans of Eric Morse and his books; definitely far more than the
two hundred people who disliked Morse and who signed Uncle Bob’s
petition. Yet, those two hundred people managed to present a situation that
made the supposed repository of all knowledge for the internet go against its
own mission statement and erase the biography of a person who is clearly a
public figure in horror at the very least, thus worthy of reference in said
database. What does this say about Wikipedia? Also, what does this say about
Uncle Bob Martin? According to reliable sources,Uncle Bob during this situation
has gone on Mike White’s website Aint It Funky and has outright bragged about
how he has put Eric Morse in his place and has really fixed him. It is obvious,
given all the bragging, that Uncle Bob’s motivation was more to cause trouble
for the author and be petty because he for some reason doesn’t personally like
him rather than act for the public good. The question in the end is what does
this say about this supposed repository of knowledge? It is a puppet for the
minority and what they want as knowledge for the internet, or is it as it is
supposed to be, a truthful data base of knowledge that is not compromised by
popular propaganda. The deletion of knowledge is just that, the deletion of
knowledge, thus if Wikipedia supports the deletion of knowledge because of minority
support than it is not worthy of the trust of its users…..
Keep it Creepin' Horror Bob's Blog!
Addendum: Since writing this blog it turns out that I might have miss heard what my sources told me. It turns out that Uncle Bob Martin did not do his bragging on Mike White's website, but on Mike White's Facebook profile. I believe that corrects the mix up. Sorry.
Addendum: Since writing this blog it turns out that I might have miss heard what my sources told me. It turns out that Uncle Bob Martin did not do his bragging on Mike White's website, but on Mike White's Facebook profile. I believe that corrects the mix up. Sorry.
