Comments on: Wikipedia’s berserkers trash Enron’s ex-boss, along with real history http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/07/06/1152216762_92/ Spam, Security, Privacy, Spyware, Phishing & Viruses from the Front Lines. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:09:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: BJ http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/07/06/1152216762_92/#comment-1167 Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:00:15 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/07/06/1152216762_92/#comment-1167 @Ben.<br> re: "it is an encyclopedia"<br> Wrong. Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia. It is a wiki that appears to function primarily as a pallative for an army of would-be writers with such low self-esteem or ethics that most contribute under the shadow of anonymity. <br> <br> A history written by unschooled consensus is no more or less valid than any other output by mobs. I thought that Chairman Mao's experiment in mob-learning thoroughly disabused the world of such nonsense.<br> <br> I'll have no quarrel with Wikipedia the day it stops pretending to be an encyclopedia. @Ben.
re: “it is an encyclopedia”
Wrong. Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia. It is a wiki that appears to function primarily as a pallative for an army of would-be writers with such low self-esteem or ethics that most contribute under the shadow of anonymity.

A history written by unschooled consensus is no more or less valid than any other output by mobs. I thought that Chairman Mao’s experiment in mob-learning thoroughly disabused the world of such nonsense.

I’ll have no quarrel with Wikipedia the day it stops pretending to be an encyclopedia.

]]> by: Ben http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/07/06/1152216762_92/#comment-1166 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:21:04 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/07/06/1152216762_92/#comment-1166 Yyyyeah. It's the encyclopedia anyone can edit. If you can find sources on Lay's philanthropy, I'm sure you could successfully add a section about it. You're right, some people might argue with you, but then, others might agree with you and support you as well. Writing on Wikipedia is about building consensus; if you have the patience to calmly do so, and you have verifiable sources backing up content written from a neutral point of view, you can get things into the 'pedia. Yyyyeah. It’s the encyclopedia anyone can edit. If you can find sources on Lay’s philanthropy, I’m sure you could successfully add a section about it. You’re right, some people might argue with you, but then, others might agree with you and support you as well. Writing on Wikipedia is about building consensus; if you have the patience to calmly do so, and you have verifiable sources backing up content written from a neutral point of view, you can get things into the ‘pedia.

]]> by: BJ http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/07/06/1152216762_92/#comment-1165 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:09:56 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/07/06/1152216762_92/#comment-1165 Change the Ken Lay story? It hasn't even been *recorded* on Wikipedia.<br> <br> However, the onesided rant is Wikipedia, perfectly wrought: Trapped in its own heated version of reality, and not to be confused by facts that don't fit the hit-piece narrative.<br> <br> Encyclopedic pretensions by that community would humiliate a more sentient group. Change the Ken Lay story? It hasn’t even been *recorded* on Wikipedia.

However, the onesided rant is Wikipedia, perfectly wrought: Trapped in its own heated version of reality, and not to be confused by facts that don’t fit the hit-piece narrative.

Encyclopedic pretensions by that community would humiliate a more sentient group.

]]> by: Ben http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/07/06/1152216762_92/#comment-1164 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:05:34 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/07/06/1152216762_92/#comment-1164 ... have you tried inserting that information into the article? Don't complain about it unless you've tried to fix it and couldn't. … have you tried inserting that information into the article? Don’t complain about it unless you’ve tried to fix it and couldn’t.

]]> by: Conspiracy Bob http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/07/06/1152216762_92/#comment-1163 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:40:21 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/07/06/1152216762_92/#comment-1163 Seems hard to believe he died of a bad conscience. With that much money it would be easy to fake a death, and meet up with Elvis in Cabo. Seems hard to believe he died of a bad conscience. With that much money it would be easy to fake a death, and meet up with Elvis in Cabo.

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