On 10-11-10 06:31 PM, Erick Anderson wrote:
If you have better information, please don't keep it to yourself. I keep an eye on the article from time to time, but I don't have much to contribute to it besides taking photos of my own stuff.
The trick/problem with Wikipedia is that the have some funny rules that don't always work well with topics with a limited knowledge base.
1. Article must be verifiable, which means that almost any fact you want to change needs a reference to a reliable source. anything from the 20th century proably does not have an independent web page, and many of the Nixie world source books don't have an ISBN (too Old)
2 No independent research, which means that if you have found some bit of truth, you are not allowed to post it yourself. It is aright if someone else posts it and cites your page as a source.
3 The Wiki crowd has some very funny ideas about relavence, and if some 14 year old gets bored they will just say that your article is not important enough, and then you have an argument/vote situation to keep track of.
I have tried to add stuff, and had my patience run down. see for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagrid_converter If you look at the edits you will see the fight I had trying to get nonsense out of this article. It still does not discuss the workings. They still use my picture!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_River_Parkway has lost a nice shot I took showing the actual road at sunset http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OttawaRPsunset.jpg becasue "Its campy and terribly lit," Anyone want to put it back?
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