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[Jon Awbrey]

Discussion Thread for “This Is Your Education On Wikipedia”

I'm going to try separating the discussion from the main topic — just an experiment to see if it helps me keep my brains from getting too scrambled. Feel free to post on whichever thread you find most convenient — I can always sort stuff out afterward.

Jon Awbrey

[Kelly Martin]

"No Original Research" was originally penned in order to have a reason to exclude Timecube and Archimedes Plutonium from getting exposure on Wikipedia. (Ironically both now have articles, albeit only as Internet phenomena.) However, it has indeed acted to completely prevent Wikipedia from becoming the forum for the "great human debate" that it was, and even today often still is, held forth as having the potential to become. Rather than being a place where competing opinions are critically weighed against one another, it has become a place where competing opinions are thrown into a giant blender, and the resulting bland and unappetizing porridge (sprinkled liberally with cat turds and pebbles) is spoonfed to the unsuspecting, under the guise of providing knowledge.