Wikipedia

[bignev23]

Given the shoddy research, you can take a guess.

It's that one we don't buy.

Thanks,doesn't surprise me.

 

[Housequake]

Always surprised me how lecturers saw Wikipedia has a no-go area.

All the links to actual journals are right at the bottom of the page ffs.

 

[Blue 1]

The high mark of got's exploits on wiki is still when someone changed joseph yobo's wiki page so his middle name was chicoazul and it got used by a fact-checker from a newspaper.

Celeb sports still has that as his middlename too.

That is phenomenal.

 

[dholliday]

Always surprised me how lecturers saw Wikipedia has a no-go area.

All the links to actual journals are right at the bottom of the page ffs.

Exactly.

It's a pride thing with the old-school lecturers. In their days they had to spend beards in libraries painstakingly finding their information. They would lionise the big enyclopaedias.

Stern magazine (from Germany) put an end to this when they put Wikipedia in a head-to-head random knowledge test vs the most famous German and English enyclopaedias: Brockmann, Britannica, Bertelsmann, Cambridge and a few others.


Guess who won, by a superlarge margin? Wikipedia, of course. It sources all of them, plus many other papers which the enyclopaedias didn't. Plus Wikipedia is always up to date, whereas the big enyclopaedias update once a year, and even their online versions don't update on the level of Wikipedia. Plus Wikipedia is peer-reviewed at levels no enyclopaedia in the word can ever match.


@students: don't listen to teachers and snobs who rubbish Wikipedia. They're just trying to make your studies harder. Only make sure that you reference from the papers it's sourcing, not from Wikipedia directly. This might mean reading the original source, but it's better than spending a week in a library to get the same info.

They'll always be exceptions: some really specialist stuff Wikipedia just won't have the level of detail or expertise. But for 90% of general knowledge, it's unbeatable.

 

[toffeejack]

haha, amazing.

i change hibbert's wiki to say 1 goal as soon as he scored vs AEK. it was changed back very quickly

 

[FTY]

The high mark of got's exploits on wiki is still when someone changed joseph yobo's wiki page so his middle name was chicoazul and it got used by a fact-checker from a newspaper.

Celeb sports still has that as his middlename too.

Do you know of the thread in which this news broke mate? Would love to see it...

 

[SerenityNigh]

Exactly.

It's a pride thing with the old-school lecturers. In their days they had to spend beards in libraries painstakingly finding their information. They would lionise the big enyclopaedias.

Stern magazine (from Germany) put an end to this when they put Wikipedia in a head-to-head random knowledge test vs the most famous German and English enyclopaedias: Brockmann, Britannica, Bertelsmann, Cambridge and a few others.


Guess who won, by a superlarge margin? Wikipedia, of course. It sources all of them, plus many other papers which the enyclopaedias didn't. Plus Wikipedia is always up to date, whereas the big enyclopaedias update once a year, and even their online versions don't update on the level of Wikipedia. Plus Wikipedia is peer-reviewed at levels no enyclopaedia in the word can ever match.


@students: don't listen to teachers and snobs who rubbish Wikipedia. They're just trying to make your studies harder. Only make sure that you reference from the papers it's sourcing, not from Wikipedia directly. This might mean reading the original source, but it's better than spending a week in a library to get the same info.

They'll always be exceptions: some really specialist stuff Wikipedia just won't have the level of detail or expertise. But for 90% of general knowledge, it's unbeatable.

Good points. A source is a source is a source. A good source won't make an idiot any less an idiot, and a smart reader can parse the good and bad sources.

 

[chicoazul]

The high mark of got's exploits on wiki is still when someone changed joseph yobo's wiki page so his middle name was chicoazul and it got used by a fact-checker from a newspaper.

Celeb sports still has that as his middlename too.

Aye, that was Cup Final day The Sun in 2009. I flicked through it before the game (left in a bar before you crucify me) and done a triple take at it. Reidy had altered it a week or two before like. Couldn't tell anyone or I'd look a bad nerd, well apart from her and she was pissing.

 

[MickM86]

Class that Chico. Top stuff.

I hate the way people think Wikipedia is the main source for facts updated by some Einstein dude when it is in fact user updated by you or me.

 

[chicoazul]

Class that Chico. Top stuff.

I hate the way people think Wikipedia is the main source for facts updated by some Einstein dude when it is in fact user updated by you or me.

Was nothing to do with me lid, all Reidy and his meddling!

 

[Allezfan]

Was nothing to do with me lid, all Reidy and his meddling!

I don't think it was Reidy, was it?

I thought nobody admitted to it.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Chicoazul yobo ffs. Hahaaaaa
Ace

 

[formerly manx toffee]

Textbook.

 

[AdamEFC]

Hahahaha boss that.

I am intrigued by the story in the top right though "Bill had death threats".

 

[Elong]

Got Reidy written all over it something like that.