04-23-2010, 06:01 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-23-2010, 06:03 AM by Virtual Bison.)
My own opinon of Wikipedia is somewhat mixed. On one hand I did find a useful resourse for trying to find information on subjects. But my instructors warned me when I was in school not to rely only on Wikipedia but to check the linked sourses of invormation.
The real problem with Wikipedia is that it is a medium created and maintained by anyone who cares to spend the time working on it.
This Tallmagic guy seems to think of himself as some kind of authority. Yet he will be totally biased in how he edits. For instance, he will use The Cheyenne Herald (a higly opinionated and sometimes downright libelous publication written, edited and published by one individual) as an authority is articles about Kennedy-Western and others. In his latest edit, he mentions an opinion voiced by this editor that criminal charges should be brought. Yet if anyone dares to say anything controversial about his friend George Gollin than it will be reverted faster than you can say "hypocrit."
To be frank, I think that Wikipedia is really created and maintained by people who really have nothing better to do with their time. Some articles are decent and are totally dumb.
Incidently, how did that edit war between Tallmagic and Derrik Smart go?
The real problem with Wikipedia is that it is a medium created and maintained by anyone who cares to spend the time working on it.
This Tallmagic guy seems to think of himself as some kind of authority. Yet he will be totally biased in how he edits. For instance, he will use The Cheyenne Herald (a higly opinionated and sometimes downright libelous publication written, edited and published by one individual) as an authority is articles about Kennedy-Western and others. In his latest edit, he mentions an opinion voiced by this editor that criminal charges should be brought. Yet if anyone dares to say anything controversial about his friend George Gollin than it will be reverted faster than you can say "hypocrit."
To be frank, I think that Wikipedia is really created and maintained by people who really have nothing better to do with their time. Some articles are decent and are totally dumb.
Incidently, how did that edit war between Tallmagic and Derrik Smart go?
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