Officious Prick-ipediA Options

[thekohser]

I'm getting some link traffic from The Gameroom Blitz, where they seem to have a full-blown hate-on for Jimmy Wales:

These games are better than any of the official versions of GORF I've played... isn't that worthy of some mention? Not according to skirt-chasing douchenozzle Jimmy Wales and his army of anal-retentive dweebs with delusions of alpha maledom. A note to Jimmy if he's reading this, and I do so hope he is... what's the point of an encyclopedia that anyone can edit if you're just going to edit it out?

Another satisfied Wikipedia customer!

[dtobias]

Some of these criticisms you linked aren't all that fair; they're taking Wikipedia to task for insisting on better sources for things that people tried to write about based on their own personal knowledge of the subjects involved; but if somebody managed to get a hoax into Wikipedia by claiming personal knowledge of something that was in fact false, and even worse, pertained to a BLP subject, then the WR crowd would be the first to be screaming bloody murder about how Wikipedia was spreading bad information, and maybe even defamation. It's a no-win situation for the admins who get put into "damned if I do, damned if I don't" situations every time they are confronted with a "keep or delete" choice.

[GlassBeadGame]

Some of these criticisms you linked aren't all that fair; they're taking Wikipedia to task for insisting on better sources for things that people tried to write about based on their own personal knowledge of the subjects involved; but if somebody managed to get a hoax into Wikipedia by claiming personal knowledge of something that was in fact false, and even worse, pertained to a BLP subject, then the WR crowd would be the first to be screaming bloody murder about how Wikipedia was spreading bad information, and maybe even defamation. It's a no-win situation for the admins who get put into "damned if I do, damned if I don't" situations every time they are confronted with a "keep or delete" choice.

Of course the arguments are not very good. It would not be a better encyclopedia if that group of Usenet dweebs ran it instead of the current group of Usenet dweebs. But the officious prick part is right on the money.