Last night, on Twitter, I had a conversation with a Wikipedian editor who was involved with Wikipedia training. I informed her of the fact Wikipedian editors are systematically deleting the significant fact that Charles Darwin blatantly lied in 1860 by denying that any naturalists had read Patrick Matthew's full prior-published theory of natural selection before he replicated it without citing Matthew.
Click: Here - On Twitter to see the telling conversation.
Click: Here - On Twitter to see the telling conversation.
I think Wikipedian editors should take great care. The resource they are recklessly editing is causing the resource to be EXCLUDED from University recognition. Why does Wikipedia allow their editors - mostly female, as we've been told - to do this to such a potentially useful resource. We can't trust anything in Wikipedia after it has been edited in-house and there is a full history of such editing attached to each page. Take a look sometime and see what has newly been deleted and ask why?
ReplyDeleteI suspect what has happened is that Wikipedia has, like so many other good ideas, been taken over by those who have a ne'erdowell predilection for "corporate gimpory". Unable to think for themselves, other than trotting out mindless corporate mantras and trying to follow an activity template to make decisions on matters in which they have no intrinsic understanding the result can only ever be stupidity. The problem is the general public (as always) fails to see what only a few ever do.
DeleteWikipedia is run by the type of imbecilic clowns who - for want of an ability to actually think and reason like productive adults - would perceive it to be be a good idea to install a child's slide in an adult working environment so as to stimulate creative progress. Result = imbecilic clown editors run an encyclopdia to be consumed by the vast majority of the population who are unable to tell (and don't actually care) that they have been punterized.