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_ Highlighted for Posterity _ Wikipedia has worn out its welcome - Scripps News

Posted by: Newsfeed


http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/28003&cid=0&ei=Z3knR6iQGaOc0AHtk7iTAw
Scripps News, DC -39 minutes ago
By JAMES DERK One of the most interesting things to arise out of the Internet age is Wikipedia, a self-edited reference manual for the masses that allows ...


http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/28003&cid=0&ei=Z3knR6iQGaOc0AHtk7iTAw[br]

Posted by: thekohser

QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Tue 30th October 2007, 2:35pm) *

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/28003&cid=0&ei=Z3knR6iQGaOc0AHtk7iTAw
Scripps News, DC -39 minutes ago
By JAMES DERK One of the most interesting things to arise out of the Internet age is Wikipedia, a self-edited reference manual for the masses that allows ...


http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/28003&cid=0&ei=Z3knR6iQGaOc0AHtk7iTAw[br]


Hallelujah, Mr. Derk! Thank you for writing this.

QUOTE
I was one of the original fans of Wikipedia, writing enthusiastically about it and even submitting some material and photographs. Today I won't go near it.


This sums up major concerns most of us here have, in simple layman's terms. And no "Comments" feature, so David Gerard and Guy Chapman and Durova can't reply and berate the man for "misunderstanding" the Wikipedia culture he describes.

Greg

Posted by: Jonny Cache

QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 30th October 2007, 3:49pm) *

QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Tue 30th October 2007, 2:35pm) *

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/28003&cid=0&ei=Z3knR6iQGaOc0AHtk7iTAw
Scripps News, DC -39 minutes ago
By JAMES DERK One of the most interesting things to arise out of the Internet age is Wikipedia, a self-edited reference manual for the masses that allows …

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/28003&cid=0&ei=Z3knR6iQGaOc0AHtk7iTAw[br]


Hallelujah, Mr. Derk! Thank you for writing this.

QUOTE

I was one of the original fans of Wikipedia, writing enthusiastically about it and even submitting some material and photographs. Today I won't go near it.


This sums up major concerns most of us here have, in simple layman's terms. And no "Comments" feature, so David Gerard and Guy Chapman and Durova can't reply and berate the man for "misunderstanding" the Wikipedia culture he describes.

Greg


Let us hope that this is a sign that the tide of Non-Investigative.Net Journalism Affectees (NINJA's) is finally turning.

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Posted by: WhispersOfWisdom

Oh....the humanity!

The truth will set you free!

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Posted by: Jonny Cache

QUOTE(WhispersOfWisdom @ Tue 30th October 2007, 4:40pm) *

Oh … the humanity!

The truth will set you free!

wink.gif


http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/melvillebio.html#bartleby

So many prefer not to be …


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