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Old 11-22-2009, 07:37 AM  
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Originally Posted by AmeliaG View Post
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.
I hope by now the person created several fake accounts as well and has friends like you and social friend groups to support them, that could easily add to the articles.... same can be done with the goth articles, but simply create new ones.

Source wise, that would be why we want the source, a Live Journal entry about a guy may be valid - it is still only chatter, no different than this forum, it isn't really "the forefront of destroying human knowledge" ... to have it posted on Wiki.


The real knowledge of wiki's has powerful provable sources... not simply opinions.
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