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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/technology/19wikipedia.htm l?ei=5088&en=7381ee46bf55c9da&ex=1345176000&part ner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

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Pip

P.S.  Link!  Look what the NY Times did to Bush!

Interesting article Pip! Who'd a thunk??And this is why wikipedia is so awesome. It's great entertainment. LOL And of course why you should never believe everything you read! Especially from wikipedia! I enjoyed this quote, because people often disparage Wikipedia and I think it's a great resource:

"Internet experts, for the most part, have welcomed WikiScanner. “I’m very glad that this has been exposed,” said Susan P. Crawford, a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School. “Wikipedia is a reliable first stop for getting information about a huge variety of things, and it shouldn’t be manipulated as a public relations arm of major companies.”

I have noticed on Wikipedia that even though anyone can post,inaccuracies are not well tolerated by people "in the know" on the pages subject, so while it's not 100% scientific, in my opinion it's a pretty good starting place, like the Professor says.

So as long as people know about WikiScanner, when they post there, I think it's a great way to improve Wikipedia's credibility with people.

Gimpy-a-gogo39373.9799652778Why does anybody read or believe anything the NY Times says?? They have been caught just one too many times

Wikipedia is not allowed in many schools as a source for research papers because of manipulations such as these.  As many have pointed out it is a good starting point but each and every bit of information on it needs to be crossed checked for reliability

As for the NY Times thing.  I hope whichever staffer(s) were responsible for that were fired immediatly.  That is not acceptable behavior for any member of a news organization.  I don't care whether the target was George Bush or Bill Clinton.  The Times claims to be unbiased its rather hard to believe when you see things such as these

buckeye39374.3573263889Yes, I've seen more than one Wikipedia page in the throes of a raging editing
debate! Sometimes I enjoy reading the "talk" page behind the page.
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