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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Yes, filling Wiki up with information on Goth would be destroying human knowledge....but it still has it's place I guess.
Most real "information" Wiki's are collaborated and include the sources. If you're reading a wiki with no sources or trash sources, it's like reading any other part of the Internet.
That's what makes wiki's different, they should include the sources for the research.
Thanks for the article $5.... btw, send me that damn banner.
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Uhm, there are tons of goth articles on Wikipedia. They are just filled with tons of errors of both omission and commission. The information is laughably poor quality. I just use that as an example because the Wikipedia articles on the import and export of jade may be totally defective -- probably are totally defective -- but I'm not a professional level expert in that. And I happen to be aware that there is basically one person -- a loser cat lady from the Pacific NW -- who rides the RSS feeds from Wikipedia and deliberately messes with all of the entries in that category.
Here is another example of what is wrong with their sourcing system. They run a lot of articles on sorts of things which may not have a ton of online source material. For example, a friend of mine, who has the stomach to look at that destructive site, wanted the article on him to list where he went to school. There were LiveJournal entries written by people who hate him sourced on there, but he was not permitted to add where he went to grad school because, by Wikipedia's defective logic, the person the article is about could not possibly know enough about himself to know where he was educated. A supposedly disinterested third party with a fake name is a totally good source for info on his life though.