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Jacob P Secrest
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| Posted: 22 September 2005 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | 1
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Tom Melly wrote:
IMHO that would be an incorrect fact, not an opinion. As I said, this
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By that logic, religious belief isn't an opinion.
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Richard Callaghan
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| Posted: 22 September 2005 at 2:40pm | IP Logged | 2
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Personally I find it's good to confirm what you already know but can't remember off hand... like whether Goat's Head Soup was released in 73 or 74 for instance.
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Jacob P Secrest
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Well, it's easy for someone to change things (including things you already
know), I think the idea of Wikipedia is great, it allows the potential of a
great ammount of information to be readily available to the masses, but
the way it's carried out (allowing anyone to edit a page), not so great.
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Jeremy Nichols
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I get my music info from All Music Guide or Musicmatch. I've
found them to be quite all-inclusive and reliable. And for those
who like bias as a side dish for their data, they have reviews as
well. Man, I'm there like every day, several times.
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Richard Callaghan
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JB was born in 1950 though, right?
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Brian Talley
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Hope you're feeling better real soon, Matt.
And that's an absolute fact.
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Ian Evans
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Steve Jones wrote:
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Just because Wikipedia can be edited by anyone doesn't mean it's worthless.
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That's exactly what it means.
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Steve Jones
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Roger replied: If I can't trust the source, the information is worthless as far as I'm concerned ...
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What sources can you trust? No source is 100% trustworthy and thus all information is suspect. All sources come with built-in bias (and I'm not talking about 1+1=2 or that the Earth goes round the Sun type facts here ). To get a full rounded picture of any subject in my opinion, you should consult a number of sources.
However, to qualify the above, we all live in the real world where you have to accept things on faith as it is pretty tiresome to question everything all the time. Maybe to use the word suspect is wrong as it implies hidden motives but I'm not sure of a better word.
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Jacob P Secrest
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If a crack addict living in a thirty cent a month apartment can edit the
article of Julius Caesar, then I think it is an untrustworthy source.
Edited because of mistake pointed out by Richard Callaghan
Edited by Jacob P Secrest on 22 September 2005 at 6:49pm
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Sean Hollenhors
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Is Wikipedia the information version of Napster? It seems like it. There are a billion other places to get the information contained in Wikipedia, most won't veer into the slanderous. Just because Wiki seems to have the "power to the people" thing going for it, doesn't mean that the people running the site have any better moral center than anyone else. The opposite is more likely.
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Joe Zhang
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"Just because Wiki seems to have the "power to the people" thing going
for it, doesn't mean that the people running the site have any better
moral center than anyone else."
There's both good and bad to Wiki. I personally have found some stuff
very informative. But let's keep in mind JB's entry was a boiling
cauldron of battling agendas since day one.
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Richard Callaghan
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| Posted: 22 September 2005 at 6:36pm | IP Logged | 12
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QUOTE:
If a crack addict living in an apartment can edit the article of Julius
Caesar, then I think it is an untrustworthy source. |
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What if it was a really nice apartment?
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