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A report in the Melbourne "Age" today about "one of the most prolific contributors and editors" to Wikipedia being not a professor in theology and law but an unqualified 24 year old. He contributed to 20,000 entries using such sources as "Catholicism for Dummies" to correct srticles. Wikipedia...

This link, given to me by a friend, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy#Existence_of_a_scientific_consensus describes the controversy surrounding global warming and the scientific consensus about it. I'd like to have some knowledgeable people's opinions about the article...

I think this is my second or third thread on a new Wiki, but here's "Conservapedia" an allegedly an alternative to Wikipedia for the American Christian Right Wing. They have a page accusing Wikipedia of liberal bias and include some of the following Their article on faith with a blurb on...

A small piece of sense from Larry Sanger at last Nicholas Carr expands on this slightly: It remains to be seen whether the ability to create new articles from scratch rather than edit the dreck from Wikipedia will cause an increase of enthusiasm in a project that has hitherto lacked passion...

I'm surprised by how spot on the summary of the creation and the failure of the 9/11 commission is in the wikipedia site. Usually wikipedia is the most unreliable source. Even some people have claimed the site is on the "dark side", meaning they're in cahoots with the government, which I think...

The criticism section for this article is a bit light. Does anyone who has more up-to-date info than me on the quality of these Scholars' research fancy updating it?

I know that many on this forum use Wikipedia (myself included) frequently so the following may be of interest. There are other articles on this news also: Wikipedia Targeted by Malware Writers By Elizabeth Millard November 6, 2006 8:12AM...

For those who think the 911 Commision was impartial, please read the wikipedia entry on Philip Zelikow. The Exucutive Director of the commission is an expert in creating "public myths". He also wrote an article in 1998 saying the destruction of the towers would be a new pearl harbour and...

A certain Daniel Brandt, who found the person who libelled John Siegenthaler, has done a search for plagiarism in Wikipedia and found some fabulous examples: http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/psamples.html And what is Wikipedia's response? Delete not only the plagiarized text, but ALL OF THE...

Does Wikipedia provide false authority to our sound-bite society? The following is a paragraph from a Wikipedia entry for Thomas Kuhn’s book titled “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”. Quote: “The changes that occur in politics, society and business are often expressed in Kuhnian terms...

Does someone with more knowledge than me (that's, um, pretty much anyone... 'cept maybe TruthSeeker90210) want to take a crack at correcting this Wikipedia article on Thermate?

Larry Sanger previous wikipedia alturnative (Digital Universe) has produced it's first 363 articles. http://www.eoearth.org/articles While not all have wikipedia equiverlents I suspect we shall see comparisions being made soon for a sample: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Bay_of_Fundy and...

Yes, I am the same TruthSeeker1234 that is currently banned from editing Wikipedia, for my having conceived and executed the "Engineer Ed" Hoax. I was sick of having my mainstrem-sourced interesting facts repeatedly deleted from 9/11 articles, so I created a sockpuppet named Engineer Ed. Ed was...

It appears that one of Wikipedia's original founders agrees with it's detractors that, in its current model, it has too many problems and is not the utopian information resource that he intended. He has created an "alternative" to Wikipedia that relies more on experts, and far less on "common...

I'm sure this has been posted before but I think it should be brought up again considering the number of bias wikipedia articles out there. We should use this thread to post wikipedia articles that show an obvious POV conflict and seem to support the Paranormal outright. Listing the...

Here's the Wikipedia entry on "Remote Viewing". If anyone has the time and inclination, it is in desperate need of NPOV, as it is written almost totally from the viewpoint of RV being real. All I did to it this morning was add the word "alleged" to the definition. All the other edits I wanted...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theravada How well does this describe them? I was under a very different impression.

Ayurveda

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11%2C_2001_attacks and http://s15.invisionfree.com/Loose_Change_Forum/index.php?showtopic=7927 Anyone feel like correcting the wiki page... Looks like Loose Changers decided to edit it, lots...

Correct me if im wrong, but i have searched the Wikipedia for a definition of WOO or WOOISM, and have returned no hits in the skeptical framework. Would anyone be interested in creating such an entry? It would increase the knowledge of skeptisism and its language. :eye-poppi

It seems Veterinary homoeopaths have their own little section in Wikipedia. While idly surfing recently I experienced a strange frisson as I came across the following section in Wikepedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Association_of_Homeopathic_Veterinary_Surgeons). It states: So the...

http://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.pdf The above is Britannica's response to the Nature article lauding wikipedia. On the face of it, pretty damning for something of Nature's stature.

Howdy all, I just got this email from someone who runs a skeptic webring. I thought it might interest you all... Cheers - Mattus >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Invitation I would like to invite webmasters and site owners to begin editing Wikipedia and SkepticWiki. There are many subjects for skeptics...

Though by its very nature it is fraught with misinformation, I have come to look at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) as a fairly objective resource, particularly when it comes to pseudoscience and quackery. It tends to give me faith in the general intelligence of the Internet...

So one of the co-founders of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, has split to create a new online Encyclopedia project. While this one will also allow public contribution, it will not instant-publish them; and the whole thing is overseen by a panel of experts and adacemics. The panel looks pretty solid...

Sorry about this: I'm not fixated by Wikipedia, I just tend to follow through subjects to their natural conclusion. The Wikipedia Bomb I had another random walk through Wikipedia today, and I noticed something that I hadn't been paying attention to before: Even some of the longest and most...

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html Britanica beats us 3:4 in terms of errors. So second but not too bad. Just don't mention Mendeleev, Dmitry.

I thought this topic needed a new thread, particularly after reading the article below; which calls into question the nature of the technology itself: Wikipedia: magic, monkeys and typewriters By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Published Monday 24th October 2005 21:42 GMT...

I've just read this opinion piece: http://technology.guardian.co.UK/opinion/story/0,16541,1599325,00.html I often turn to Wikipedia if I want to quickly look up something and I do reference it occasionally here. However the above article got me to wondering how good is it to use as a reference...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Browne I think the opening paragraph of this article needs a fact cheack I don't have the raw knowlage to know what the truth is in these areas.