Many posters to this forum often quote or link to wikipedia, myself included. It is regularly used to prove/disprove debates and generally relied
upon as a credible source.
A recent article in the New York Times points out the flaws of Wikipedia's accuracy for rather dubious motives.
www.nytimes.com...
Last year a Wikipedia visitor edited the entry for the SeaWorld theme parks to change all mentions of “orcas” to “killer whales,”
insisting that this was a more accurate name for the species.
There was another, unexplained edit: a paragraph about criticism of SeaWorld’s “lack of respect toward its orcas” disappeared. Both changes, it
turns out, originated at a computer at Anheuser-Busch, SeaWorld’s owner.
Luckily, as described in the article, there is a new and easy to use tool to monitor such revisions:
wikiscanner.virgil.gr...
Check out some of the links on the right to see who is saying nice things about themselves.
More on the author of the program:
www.globalresearch.ca...
Thought this was thread worthy and have not seen it elsewhere on this site.
regards.....kk
[edit on 21-8-2007 by kinda kurious]
