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Doc glasgow
post Tue 22nd March 2011, 10:18pm
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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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post Tue 22nd March 2011, 10:51pm
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That's an interesting question, but wp articles on high-profile people like Gaddafi or Chavez have become almost no-fly zones, a bit like Libya itself. Wikipedia has no structures in place analagous to the UN or NATO, so the various factions just have to slug it out, manoeuvring to try and have their opponents blocked, or better yet banned.
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Doc glasgow   Most crappy important article   Tue 22nd March 2011, 10:18pm
Doc glasgow   That's an interesting question, but wp articl...   Tue 22nd March 2011, 10:57pm
Emperor   WWII. It's a top 20 article, and has major er...   Tue 22nd March 2011, 11:46pm
thekohser   Doc, if you can define "importance" for ...   Tue 22nd March 2011, 11:57pm
Doc glasgow   Doc, if you can define "importance" for...   Wed 23rd March 2011, 12:22am
EricBarbour   WP articles on major corporations tend to be eithe...   Wed 23rd March 2011, 1:04am
Versa   I think that the article on asshole http://en.wiki...   Wed 23rd March 2011, 4:02am
melloden   They already made a list at this page. So just go ...   Wed 23rd March 2011, 4:12am
Milton Roe   [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment]E...   Wed 23rd March 2011, 5:13am
thekohser   Go ahead, try any Fortune 500 firm's name. I...   Wed 23rd March 2011, 2:15pm
Cock-up-over-conspiracy   [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi]...   Wed 23rd March 2011, 3:16pm
Milton Roe   It is a wonder how my generation ever worked out ...   Wed 23rd March 2011, 8:13pm
Peter Damian   [quote name='Cock-up-over-conspira...   Wed 23rd March 2011, 8:20pm
melloden   This sort of thing. [url=http://www.nlm.nih.gov/...   Wed 23rd March 2011, 9:11pm
EricBarbour   Texas Towers is a miserable excuse for an article....   Wed 23rd March 2011, 8:27pm
Eva Destruction   It got me wondering - what's the most crappy ...   Fri 25th March 2011, 6:08pm
Silver seren   It got me wondering - what's the most crappy...   Fri 25th March 2011, 6:13pm
Eva Destruction   Agreed, wow. IT is one of the fastest growing fie...   Fri 25th March 2011, 6:44pm
Eva Destruction   Honorable mention for Factory as well.   Fri 25th March 2011, 6:50pm


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