Comments on: The Threshold / Wikipedia story, 10 months later

By: Beth Charette

Beth Charette — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:53:53 +0000

Yes, I have personally had several important corrections to Wikipedia articles deleted by their editors.

I know from personal experience that the sections that I corrected were just wrong. This was not my opinion. The facts as presented were just incorrect.

However, despite this, because it seemed Wikipeida had “biases” I was unable to get the text corrected.

Knowledge shouldn’t be about war, but it seems to me it should be about accuracy. If for any reason Wikipedia can’t manage that, they become more dangerous than helpful.

Beth

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By: proxyproviders.com

proxyproviders.com — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:14:50 +0000

On one hand I do feel sorry for the people who have to edit the entries because you have people like Richard Herring who think it is clever to tell his loyal band of fans to deface various Wikipedia pages about, normally people who have fallen out with.

But then that empathy goes away when some of them become so eager to delete entries for the flimsiest reasons.

By: Harrison Stuart

Harrison Stuart — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:46:28 +0000

I’ve read a news about how a person ruin one of the Wikipedia pages that caused so much trouble to everybody involved with the issue. That’s precisely the downfall of this online dictionary feature, everybody is allowed to edit anything there.

By: Dean Saliba

Dean Saliba — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:08:29 +0000

Ah Wikipedia.

But then that empathy goes away when some of them become so eager to delete entries for the flimsiest reasons.