Comments on: Wikipedia is useless

By: rod sutherland

rod sutherland — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:35:44 +0000

I’m guessing that wikipedia deleted your articles because they were written subjectively, not objectively. By the way, I suggest that you mention that the above fields are mandatory, so that I don’t have to type all this again after returning from a page displaying an error message to find all these fields blank. I would have thought this was obvious really…

By: Bobo

Bobo — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:37:16 +0000

Wikipedia isn’t useless because it denied your edits. It’s useless because it presents its editors’ opinions as fact.

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:41:44 +0000

I agree, wikipedia or as I like to call it, wikishitia, is utterly useless. Indeed, it is an outrage and it will prove the end of knowledge. It is run by a cabal of lifeless brain-dead morons who suffer from OCD. Wikishitia manages to distort just about every subject, most especially, anything that has to do with culture or history. They mesh alien cultures together, alien architectural styles and just about everything else. It is essentially a fascist organization run by the brainless and useful only to persons whose wish it is to spread delusional propaganda.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:08:52 +0000

A great article on the deletionist V inclusionist debate: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=199409

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:00:48 +0000

And another great article that analyses what is broken at Wikipedia: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/is-something-fundamentally-wrong-with-wikipedia-governance-processes/2008/01/07

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:55:04 +0000

I have found this great article which explains what is going on and the cult of deletionism amongst Wiki editors that is devaluing the validity of the whole project: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131

By: Scott Thompson

Scott Thompson — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:46:16 +0000

Did the editors give a reason for deleting your contributions?

The company I work for wants to have a Wikipedia entry. Somehow, I suspect that writing one and posting it from within the company would be frowned upon. But writing one on company time and then posting it from a different IP address feels unethical to me. Tricky one…

By: Daniel Primed

Daniel Primed — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:24:45 +0000

Just because Wikipedia denied your modifications does not automatically render it useless. Obviously there are plenty of cracks within Wikipedia but for what it is there is no doubt that it is a useful tool. Provided that you don’t rely on it for consistently 100% correct information. The website has only been around for a few years so you can’t expect it to completely cover everything to an extent to please everyone.

This article appears as an angry, unsubstantiated backlash. Which is unfortunate.

By: Nikolas Payne

Nikolas Payne — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:21:19 +0000

There’s a Wiki on every subject, usually two or three–and especially on as popular (and nerdy) a topic as gaming. You can argue Wikipedia has a mindshare monopoly, but not a real one.

By: A friend in need

A friend in need — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:53:44 +0000

Wikipedia is 2007. Didn’t you get the memo?
http://www.squidoo.com/ is what you are looking for gramps.