AWikipedia, Open Access and Cognitive Virology

The relentless (and mindless) tendency to refer to (and think of) OA itself as "OA Publishing" instead of just OA (thereby completely conflating and confusing Green OA self-archiving with Gold OA publishing) has been an endless source of misunderstanding, misdirection and, worst of all, delay in the progress of OA. A high-profile accomplice in the perpetuation of this constant canard isthe entry for "Open Access" in Wikipedia. Originally the Wikipedia entry was entitled "Open Access," as it should be. But then some of the self-appointed vigilantes ("trolls") in the bowels of Wikipedia -- mostly anonymous individuals with plenty of time on their hands who accrue the "power" to adjudicate and legislate Wikipedia items and disputes not through expertise in the subject matter but "recursively," through cumulative air-time in adjudicating and legislating! -- decided to rename the entry "Open Access (publishing)."