Editorial row engulfs Wikipedia

Knol is different. With Knol an author/expert owns an article. It's their property (and ad income!). With Wikipedia multiple experts can (and should) contribute and maintain articles they have expertise on. Google Knol is more of a turf-war with multiople experts starting articles on the same topic, competing with each other.

jacog,

I challenge you to a duel for insulting me! Only by taking your life will I be assuaged of this blatant slander:

Quoting: ... the planet is riddled with a rather hefty collection of jerks and stupid people.

Whereas everywhere I go I am known as that "Smart A**"!! How Dare You?

So it's Epees at Dawn, enjoy your last day ...

YBT

Can we duel with banjos instead?

jacog,

I guess you get to live another day. Banjos? Don't even know how to hold one ... looking at a picture, hmm could make a nice club. And it's reinforced with metal strings, could work.

Ok next time, you die with a crushing blow from a banjo. [The crazy things I have to do to get some reasonable fight time.]

YBT

Now listen here Banjo death squads...

lol

Scott,

Quoting:Banjo [D]eath [S]quads

I like the ring of that phrase, it should be set to music.

We will open on Broadway and literally Knock 'em Dead.

YBT

P.S. By the way, how expensive are those banjos? Don't want to go over budget or be too stingy during rehearsals. That would be penny wise and pound foolish.

jacor,

Ok, dueling banjos: http://vimeo.com/1049033 , but it ends abruptly.

Match that!

Actually here is the one I prefer: http://vimeo.com/2539741 A sticker would say, however, most of those aren't banjos. But beats the crap out of most others I have seen.

YBT

Txt I have to say I was somewhat disappointed, I thought you found a video of two people clubbing each other with banjos.

@boomboom: You mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7hvqtSzokw http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/amc0643l.jpg

Banjo Hero?

That is a great cartoon Sander.

boom.. boom*,

Quoting:I thought you found a video of two people clubbing each other with banjos.

How could I? That is my Business Innovation, where I fully intend to protect my IP [Intellectual Property (for the noobs among us)], by patenting the hell out of it, Trademarking and vile Threats of dismemberment to any and all that have nefarious thoughts about Mine.

Cash Flow: whatever the cause of the mayhem, I visit the injured themselves or the bereaved families (where the action was more permanent) with assorted muscle and collect my fees from those least able to defend themselves. Soon I will be rich and a model citizen with politicians dying to take my money to pass any laws to protect my august status.

Now I warn one and all: You may all look on with envy, but I allow none of you to touch.

YBT

* why do I find my self addressing you as bomb ... bomb?

Quoting:Threats of dismemberment

With banjos?

Quoting:why do I find my self addressing you as bomb ... bomb?

Because bombs go boom?

Sorry for the late post. Hard to find time to keep up with things these days.

Did not read the article, but my take on this thread is that most of you believe wikipedia's problem is that it accepts content from too many sources.

Here's why I disagree and why I almost never use wikipedia. http://www.libraryplanet.com/2008/04/17/wikipedia

NoDough: That's not smart of you. Not that I disagree with that link you posted, but it shows that you use Wikipedia wrong. Don't regard Wikipedia as an authorative source. Use it as a giant pool if information that makes an excellent starting point for your own research.

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet" still holds true if you're on Wikipedia.

Sander,

You missed the point. Everyone believes wikipedia to be what it advertised itself to be: a forum where anyone can contribute, where the information isn't limited to just one viewpoint or just one person's perspective. People believe this so much that they complain about too many viewpoints being included.

In my experience, and as the provided link demonstrates, it's just the opposite.

Then put the matter to someone higher in the food chain.

Exactly Sander, submit it for a 'review', whatever form that takes its gotta be better than the none that happens now, and then make the changes necessary for it to be worthy of publishing.

Sander, Scott:

Thats what I said, about halfway up this page! If you think there is a mistake, report it, please.

Wikipedia only works if we do.

I agree, And I do report stuff I see and wrong and make changes I see to pages I visit that need it. I really do.