1. The Wikipedia is opaque and encourages recklessness
2. The Wikipedia is anarchic, not democratic
3. The Might is Right Editorial Principle
4. Wikipedia is against real knowledge
5. Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia
6. The Wikipedia is rife with libel and violations of copyrights
Vaknin sums up Wikipedia:
(1:20 AM)
Six cardinal (and, in the long-term, deadly) sins plague this online venture. What unites and underlies all its deficiencies is simple: Wikipedia dissembles about what it is and how it operates. It is a self-righteous confabulation and its success in deceiving the many attests not only to the gullibility of the vast majority of Netizens but to the PR savvy of its sleek and slick operators.
2 Comments:
You will find a very able and far more accurate rebuttal of the article (first published in direct response to the author being banned for sockpuppetry see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Samvak)here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ta_bu_shi_da_yu/Global_Politician
I appreciate the kudos from the previous poster, but I didn't respond to Sam's article because he got banned for sock-puppetry. To be honest, I didn't know anything about Sam (or even that he was banned) and was just responding to his argument, which I'm sure everyone agrees is the best way of going about things.
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