On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 14:40 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2008 2:37 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 12:22 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> > > Larry, the problem though with Wikipedia is that the actual basis of
> > > credibility on which a given article rests is virtually intractable.
> > > There are thousands of apparent contributors all adding, deleting,
> > > editing portions of the article and there is absolutely no way in the
> > > Wiki medium to determine which portions of the article are coming from
> > > credible sources. The Wiki idea works when you have a high level of
> > > trust in all potential participants, when you've got various
> > > contributors with a variety of motives the medium becomes corrupted
> > > VERY quickly. At this point anyone who has used Wikipedia seriously
> > > no longer considers it to be a stable system, despite what Jimbo tells
> > > you.
> > ----
> > what does that make me...chopped liver?
> > ----
>
> Craig,
>
> read this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
>
> THEN... tell me that Wikipedia is a place that anyone can post
> information to, and have it remain there.
----
I think that if I put something there that was not represented, was
useful in a non-political way, it would probably remain.
I'm not sure what argument you are making here.
Craig
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