nacoran
2440 posts
Aug 07, 2010
7:38 PM
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I'm not sure if this makes me feel better about our attempt at a harmonica wiki, or worse, but here is a look at some of the weirder editing wars on Wikipedia (with a tiny bit of harmonica content under U2)
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Andrew
1107 posts
Aug 08, 2010
1:42 AM
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Wiki has gone seriously downhill recently.
[moderator you can delete from this line onwards if you want]
When we were having a recent religious debate here I wanted to check what I knew of Pius XII, but Wiki has given up responsibility for all Christian editing to a zealous young Christian group, which is tragic because the Catholic Encyclopedia was already a good quality, relatively neutral, reference. Pius XII, among other things, has now been whitewashed over.
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GermanHarpist
1671 posts
Aug 08, 2010
2:26 AM
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Yeah, you've got to look out for stuff like this... but the OP.. IMO that exactly is the beauty of the Internet/Wiki.
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Stickman
391 posts
Aug 08, 2010
10:06 AM
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LOL some of the stupid things that can cause an argument. Reminds me of this forum. But I am with GH and celebrate a diversity of ideas and opinions.
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nacoran
2447 posts
Aug 08, 2010
11:57 AM
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The problem is though, that it doesn't always represent diversity. It represents a few people who are a willing to keep pushing longer than the rest. But, I'm all for diverse opinions. If I was setting up a site like Wikipedia from scratch I'd take pages that were creating a lot of controversy and address the controversy right on the page in the text.
I know you don't want redundant pages, or pages that are just a stub that never goes anywhere, but I thought we were headed in a pretty good direction with ours, and because a couple people didn't think blues harmonica was important enough it got squashed, but oh well, that's the way it goes.
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