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Mezzy
21-11-2006, 21:48
What's your thoughts about Wikipedia? Is it trustworthy? Is it just a huge scam? Or maybe it's the Masonic Lodge's newest weapon in it's struggle for world domination and it's battle against the Vatican State?

What's your thoughts?

Dampus
21-11-2006, 21:56
I though that a few things is thrustworthy but not all.
You know that you can write in stuffs yourself? Anyways thats why i dont thoughts all the things is thrustworthy.

Seppuku
21-11-2006, 21:58
I think It's the n*** sonic witch will rule the world
Stern take it easy about^ Im just kidding, Ok matey?


Well Wikipedia has always been trustworthy, or thats what i think.
Anyways there are report buttons there to, use em if you find something goofy



Ok i edited away the fowl, n-word~

MaaBoo^
21-11-2006, 21:59
everyone can chage to whatever they want to. if it is a selection for a president or some thing and one of them have a bad background, he can change it to something good. and people read it and belive it. So i dont think you can trust wikki

Seppuku
21-11-2006, 22:01
:mad: Find something in wikipedia that is untrue, that has been there longer than 2 months ;)

Stern
21-11-2006, 22:10
http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/6775/omfgzbu1.th.jpg (http://img103.imageshack.us/my.php?image=omfgzbu1.jpg)
OMGZ IZ EIT TERU? :/

You know my views on Wikipedia.

Greldin
21-11-2006, 22:10
everyone can chage to whatever they want to. if it is a selection for a president or some thing and one of them have a bad background, he can change it to something good. and people read it and belive it. So i dont think you can trust wikki
They have mods though. My RL friend edited in his adress as the smallest country in the world. Ten minutes later our school's IP was banned from editing articles, and the article restored back to normal.

I heard there's going to be a new Wikipedia though, with professionals editing it or something.

Spinnix
21-11-2006, 22:19
http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/6775/omfgzbu1.th.jpg (http://img103.imageshack.us/my.php?image=omfgzbu1.jpg)
OMGZ IZ EIT TERU? :/

You know my views on Wikipedia.
Stern sux so much OMGZ IZ EIT TERU??+++ :/

Stern
21-11-2006, 22:20
I was proving a point, ever heard of sarcasm?

Stern
21-11-2006, 22:53
I was proving a point, ever heard of sarcasm?
Ever heard about being a fully fledged cuddly teddy bear?
Yeah, thanks :D

Mezzy
21-11-2006, 23:22
I often use Wikipedia as a source for info, but ofcourse, since anyone can edit the articles I usually double check the info with other sources. Although, I've only found one error on Wikipedia when using it, and I've been using it ALOT. I guess that's thanks to those moderators who constantly watch over Wikipedia to check that as much as possible is correct info :)

Korvbagaren
21-11-2006, 23:49
I was proving a point, ever heard of sarcasm?
Ever heard about being a fully fledged cuddly teddy bear?

Stern
24-11-2006, 01:40
I found this on the Amera forums which totally proves my point about Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Oblivion

Devlan
24-11-2006, 23:07
I found this on the Amera forums which totally proves my point about Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Oblivion
Hehe and I thought wikipedia was a trustworthy serious site. Didn't know that just anyone could go in a do things like that. Sucks really

df
25-11-2006, 09:46
My school says we cant use Wikipedia or Susning.nu when we're writing essays because the information on these sites isnt real

Wezzli
26-11-2006, 01:45
Wikipedia is okay, atleast to get basic point in the right direction, however you might want to take the information there less seriously until you know whether they are correct, by finding other sources. Alot of information might be correct, although they might just not be facts, but valuations, maybe biased. For use with less important tasks it'll do, but it's nothing to base an essay or book on.

My school says we cant use Wikipedia or Susning.nu when we're writing essays because the information on these sites isnt real
That's quite silly considering your school isn't supposed to evaluate what way you find information, but how good you are at summing it up into a coherent and informational text, and so on and on.

Greldin
26-11-2006, 13:23
I found this on the Amera forums which totally proves my point about Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Oblivion
Hehe and I thought wikipedia was a trustworthy serious site. Didn't know that just anyone could go in a do things like that. Sucks really
It's gone now though.

Mattus
26-11-2006, 18:00
I believe in all thats said on the INTERNET!

..

Mezzy
27-11-2006, 16:20
I found this on the Amera forums which totally proves my point about Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Oblivion
Hehe and I thought wikipedia was a trustworthy serious site. Didn't know that just anyone could go in a do things like that. Sucks really
It's gone now though.
That's my point. The moderators on Wikipedia is constantly watching it and tries to fix errors as fast as possible.

Shargy
25-12-2006, 23:48
everything i've searched on wikipedia seems trustworthy. But why would they be a scam? Many people use it, its like google wouldnt be a search engine anymore^^