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| Doc glasgow |
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Wikipedia:The Sump of All Human Knowledge  Group: Regulars Posts: 1,138 Joined: From: at home Member No.: 90  |
Muammar Gaddafi is an evil dictator. But even evil dictators don't deserve such shit wiki-bios.
It got me wondering - what's the most crappy article on a really important core topic that anyone can find on Wikipedia? Is the Gaddafi bio just bad because he's controversial. |
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| EricBarbour |
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blah Group: Regulars Posts: 5,919 Joined: Member No.: 5,066 |
WP articles on major corporations tend to be either stubs, or battlegrounds for two general groups: paid editors trying to make a happy-love-time article, and Wiki-Dinks with progressive views posting negative information about the firm.
Look at the IBM article. The long and varied history of America's most venerable computing company is glossed over miserably; there's a large section of "selected current projects" that looks like a bunch of company press releases mashed together; and an "environmental record" section that appears to have been massaged by company shills, and fails to mention the severe pollution problems at the Almaden Research Center. Oh, yeah, wanna see something really funny? Yes, I saw the History of IBM article. It's full of random-appearing detail, is poorly written, and has plenty of references that aren't referring to anything. Some of the articles about historic IBM products are pretty good, some are utter crap. Go ahead, try any Fortune 500 firm's name. This post has been edited by EricBarbour: |
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