Sorry- David- you're saying FIX IT yourself- thereby asserting that the fixer is right and the others are wrong. In your opinion you are right- but that's quite usual. The classic example given of somebody consistently changing someone's birthday to the wrong date because they believe they are right- proves the point that a self-regulating is only as correct as the last person to edit it! A sort of open debate if you like. Again as quoted- people who believe, or otherwise, in the Holocaust can have a contest to see who stops correcting first. Meanwhile anyone simply looking up info gets the latest entered opinion- right or wrong!
Surely a list 'moderating committee' or some such body would fix this? Cheers K in OZ Keith Helgesen. Director of Music, Canberra City Band. Ph: (02) 62910787. Mob 0417-042171 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David W. Fenton Sent: Sunday, 2 July 2006 7:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Finale] Comments appreciated On 30 Jun 2006 at 23:20, John Howell wrote: > No, the Wikipedia article is wrong. This does not surprise me, since > a website that is essentially a communal blog is pretty unreliable as > a reference! Not true at all. A study was done comparing the accuracy of Wikipedia articles to those of published encyclopedias, and Wikipedia had only a slightly higher level of inaccuracy than the published encyclopedias. Anyone who has ever participated in the writing of encyclopedia articles or has read many of them carefully knows perfectly well that having an editor is no guarantee of inaccuracy. Editors override article authors and insert information that doesn't belong, and some individual authors introduce inaccurate or out-of-date information. The glory of Wikipedia is that these kinds of problems can be quickly fixed, by the community of people interested in each particular article. If *you* find an inaccuracy in a Wikipedia article, then check out the discussion page for that article (to see if it's an area of ongoing dispute among the article contributors) and then FIX IT YOURSELF. If you don't, and just complain about it being inaccurate, then you're PART OF THE PROBLEM. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.7/379 - Release Date: 29/06/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.7/379 - Release Date: 29/06/2006 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
