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Old 04-12-2012, 08:54 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Trotskilicious View Post
really there's nothing more annoying* than people who don't ever use wikipedia assuming it's not credible because anyone can edit it.

that means there are 5+ nerds checking every edit and verifying its accuracy.
exactly. i have about 100 articles that notify me when someone updates and i will reverse anything not in line with wikipedia policy. that is vandalism (blatantly worthless edits), people who don't realize you HAVE to have a source (like you can know the sky is blue, but if no one's written on it in an academic paper you can't put it in wikipedia), and people pushing an agenda and ignoring all points of view on a subject.

this might sound really involved but it's not. it only takes a minute or two to check out sources of things posted, and most articles don't get updated very often. and a lot of updating is just copy-editing (fixing grammar and spelling etc)

 
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