Comments on: Wikipedia - Are You Important Enough? http://mwgblog.com/archives/2006/06/13/wikipedia-are-you-important-enough/ Michael W. Geoghegan's Weblog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:39:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dan Klass http://mwgblog.com/archives/2006/06/13/wikipedia-are-you-important-enough/#comment-8074 Dan Klass Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:53:41 +0000 http://mwgblog.com/archives/2006/06/13/wikipedia-are-you-important-enough/#comment-8074 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Geoghegan I didn't know you were British... - dK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Geoghegan

I didn’t know you were British…

- dK

]]> By: Dave http://mwgblog.com/archives/2006/06/13/wikipedia-are-you-important-enough/#comment-7962 Dave Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:30:48 +0000 http://mwgblog.com/archives/2006/06/13/wikipedia-are-you-important-enough/#comment-7962 As someone who watched their page get removed for just that reason, I can testify that it sucks. It did alter how I view Wikipedia, not from spite (although it did sting, I won't lie) but because I saw the governance process at work and found it lacking. It came down to the decision that if I was the guy who not only podcasted but did the Reality Break radio show, they'd keep the article on me. It was decided that this fact was "unverifiable", even though I link to the Reality Break website in the sidebar of my weblog. Not one person involved in this decision bothered to research a fact that would take 10 seconds to verify either from looking at my sidebar or searching via my weblog's search box, and had the gall to call it "unverifiable". At that point, I decided I'd never take anything I saw on Wikipedia at face value and I never have since. As someone who watched their page get removed for just that reason, I can testify that it sucks. It did alter how I view Wikipedia, not from spite (although it did sting, I won’t lie) but because I saw the governance process at work and found it lacking. It came down to the decision that if I was the guy who not only podcasted but did the Reality Break radio show, they’d keep the article on me. It was decided that this fact was “unverifiable”, even though I link to the Reality Break website in the sidebar of my weblog. Not one person involved in this decision bothered to research a fact that would take 10 seconds to verify either from looking at my sidebar or searching via my weblog’s search box, and had the gall to call it “unverifiable”. At that point, I decided I’d never take anything I saw on Wikipedia at face value and I never have since.

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