Bloody oath... And even when you double and triple check things, there is no guarantee that the source you're verifying from hasn't got their information from wikipedia. It's poisoning the entire web. Wikipedia seems to be the no. 1 result for any query where there is an article on that subject, so it's very tempting for most people to get all their information from the one source, without bothering to check more complicated web pages or to verify what they're reading.
The facts ALWAYS end up being coloured on wikipedia. Just one example of many - their article for Pope St. Pius X stated something like "his body was claimed to be incorrupt and entirely intact upon exhumation". I thought the "was claimed to be" was unnecessary, since anyone can see his incorrupt body in Rome, and the article even had a picture of his body taken recently - but no, every time it was edited, some geek took it upon himself to change it back. Shortly after that, I gave up on ever editing anything again, except for vandalism.
What's even more frightening is that google is now talking about making their own encyclopedia - I imagine that due to their monopoly, they will probably replace wikipedia as the first and last word on everything, effectively giving them a monopoly on information. They are a freakin' scary company - they almost make Microsoft look benevolent.
http://tinyurl.com/3lpaw9 <----- my friend gets quoted in the Manchester Evening News as a music critic, entirely due to a wikipedia article he vandalised (!!)
The facts ALWAYS end up being coloured on wikipedia. Just one example of many - their article for Pope St. Pius X stated something like "his body was claimed to be incorrupt and entirely intact upon exhumation". I thought the "was claimed to be" was unnecessary, since anyone can see his incorrupt body in Rome, and the article even had a picture of his body taken recently - but no, every time it was edited, some geek took it upon himself to change it back. Shortly after that, I gave up on ever editing anything again, except for vandalism.
What's even more frightening is that google is now talking about making their own encyclopedia - I imagine that due to their monopoly, they will probably replace wikipedia as the first and last word on everything, effectively giving them a monopoly on information. They are a freakin' scary company - they almost make Microsoft look benevolent.
http://tinyurl.com/3lpaw9 <----- my friend gets quoted in the Manchester Evening News as a music critic, entirely due to a wikipedia article he vandalised (!!)