Comments on: Wikipedia Biography http://www.tmttlt.com/2007/01/27/wikipedia-biography/ All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:40:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jeremy http://www.tmttlt.com/2007/01/27/wikipedia-biography/comment-page-1/#comment-193 jeremy Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:14:30 +0000 http://www.tmttlt.com/archives/2007/01/27/5291/#comment-193 it is not about the dead and gone jason, it is about the living and the injustice that wikipedia does to them. sure there are dead people which it does injustice to also, but really this critique arose out of their treatment of science fiction against the construction of 'notability' and 'neutrality' see for newton you have a few hundred years to establish 'neutrality' though you still get some promoters and detractors.... but for current biographies you don't have anything like that, and they get deleted or turned into messy ego playgrounds. it is not about the dead and gone jason, it is about the living and the injustice that wikipedia does to them. sure there are dead people which it does injustice to also, but really this critique arose out of their treatment of science fiction against the construction of ‘notability’ and ‘neutrality’ see for newton you have a few hundred years to establish ‘neutrality’ though you still get some promoters and detractors…. but for current biographies you don’t have anything like that, and they get deleted or turned into messy ego playgrounds.

]]> By: jason http://www.tmttlt.com/2007/01/27/wikipedia-biography/comment-page-1/#comment-194 jason Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:52:29 +0000 http://www.tmttlt.com/archives/2007/01/27/5291/#comment-194 Ya! Tell 'em Jim! Lucky for us the encyclopedia britannica has biographies, or how else would we know about <a href="http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9373397" rel="nofollow">Sir Isaac Newton</a>. Why pray tell should wikipedia not have them? Ya! Tell ‘em Jim! Lucky for us the encyclopedia britannica has biographies, or how else would we know about Sir Isaac Newton. Why pray tell should wikipedia not have them?

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