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DATE | 2016-03-18 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] the ongoing feuds of Wikipedia
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http://www.uncommondescent.com/science/more-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-bother-with-wikipedia/
Home » Science, Media, News » More reasons why you shouldn’t bother with
Wikipedia …
More reasons why you shouldn’t bother with Wikipedia …
January 14, 2014 Posted by News under Science, Media, News
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… if you need correct information, not just free information.
This should have been enough:
Authoritative entries remain elusive. Of the 1,000 articles that the
project’s own volunteers have tagged as forming the core of a good
encyclopedia, most don’t earn even Wikipedia’s own middle -ranking
quality scores. – MIT’s Technology Review
Here are some of the people who help make that possible:
Then there’s this: this:
Wikipedia shocked!, just shocked!! that some editors act for pay to
promote stuff.
And this:
Wikipedia vs. facts: Someone else discovers the hard way about
Wikipedia’s “facts” All that research to get the history correct, and he
lost to the trolls. Another Wikipedia edit-ee reports that he was the
victim of a 14-year-old.
On the other hand, people who need others to do their thinking for them
should get on fine with these people. They seem to enjoy the job.
etc etc
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