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Posted January 15, 2011
Wikipedia turns 10 today.

I know that admitting to using Wikipedia as a source for anything is a good way to be told not to on a forum, but, hey, admit it - you use it several times a day anyhow.
Posted January 15, 2011
Wikipedia is a great resource for initial research and usually bloody reliable for technical information, I suspect because there are more anal retentive nerds with a correction fetish than there are arseholes who think its funny to screw up webpages
Posted January 15, 2011
Happy Birthday, Wikipedia! :D
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Aliasalpha: Wikipedia is a great resource for initial research and usually bloody reliable for technical information, I suspect because there are more anal retentive nerds with a correction fetish than there are arseholes who think its funny to screw up webpages
Wikipedia has proven to be more accurate than an encyclopaedia. Which isn't bad going for a site anyone can edit. However, I'd always recommend consulting at least two sources.
Posted January 15, 2011
Thats wise for anything
Posted January 15, 2011
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Navagon: However, I'd always recommend consulting at least two sources.
I hear you. You should always consult some other source, for example this site.
Posted January 15, 2011
or maybe conservapedia, it only contains info on the RIGHT reality, not the crappy one that most people live in...
Posted January 15, 2011
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Aliasalpha: or maybe conservapedia, it only contains info on the RIGHT reality, not the crappy one that most people live in...
You mean?
Posted January 15, 2011
Too bad it's been taken over by a bunch of trolls these days. Just see the deletion of the Press Play on Tape-page on Wikipedia as an example.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Press_Play_on_Tape]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Press_Play_on_Tape[/url]

Wankers/exclusionists like Ben Schumin and Andy J. Smith seem to have a life mission to destroy wikipedia for the rest of us.
Posted January 15, 2011
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Zeewolf: Wankers/exclusionists like Ben Schumin and Andy J. Smith seem to have a life mission to destroy wikipedia for the rest of us.
I agree, there's a lot of stupidity on the part of old contributors, and the fact that articles get deleted or edited even when there are enough sources to prove the information is without bias made me stop contributing.
Posted January 15, 2011
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Zeewolf: Too bad it's been taken over by a bunch of trolls these days. Just see the deletion of the Press Play on Tape-page on Wikipedia as an example.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Press_Play_on_Tape]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Press_Play_on_Tape[/url]

Wankers/exclusionists like Ben Schumin and Andy J. Smith seem to have a life mission to destroy wikipedia for the rest of us.
WTF? Why would they want to delete PPOT's entry?
Posted January 15, 2011
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tejozaszaszas: You mean?
right wrong
right left
Posted January 15, 2011
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Zeewolf: Too bad it's been taken over by a bunch of trolls these days. Just see the deletion of the Press Play on Tape-page on Wikipedia as an example.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Press_Play_on_Tape]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Press_Play_on_Tape[/url]

Wankers/exclusionists like Ben Schumin and Andy J. Smith seem to have a life mission to destroy wikipedia for the rest of us.
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Wishbone: WTF? Why would they want to delete PPOT's entry?
I really can't believe this BS.
Posted January 15, 2011
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Wishbone: WTF? Why would they want to delete PPOT's entry?
Why indeed. You'd have to ask Ben, Andy & co, who fought for this deletion as if their lives depended on it. Or read that discussion I linked to... a word of warning, though, it's a very frustrating and sad read :-(

More info: http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34863
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Posted January 15, 2011
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Zeewolf: Why indeed. You'd have to ask Ben, Andy & co, who fought for this deletion as if their lives depended on it. Or read that discussion I linked to... a word of warning, though, it's a very frustrating and sad read :-(
I know, I already read it. Man, what a couple of douchebags. There ought to be some sort of higher authority one could appeal to.
Posted January 15, 2011
I admit to loving wikipedia. During boring stretches as work, I'll take what I refer to as a 'wikipedia walk'. I look at a topic that initially interests me and just keep follwing the 'see also' links. Before I know it, I've read about lost cosmonauts, Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Eiffel Tower, Motherwell football club, and Saint Jude, among others, all in one sitting.
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