The curse of Wikipedia!

[HellCat]

It's been discussed here in the past, but has anyone become 'addicted' to Wikipedia? I seem to have in the last few months. Started out with editing existing articles, now I've created 4 or 5 new ones. Generally I focus on cleaning up entries for things I like which have been thrown togethor.

[Daredevil_2003]

Red vs Blue was the featured article on Wiki the other day...that's about the most interesting thing about it. I never go there in search of info unless it's one of the first results in an obscure topic.

[Lord Dalek]

It's certainly entertaining and I really do enjoy it when the censors decide not to erase the revisions I add.

[IanC]

I lost a lot of respect for Wikipedia when they buckeld to Jack Thompson demands, but i still go there, and do the odd bit of editing.

[HellCat]

I lost a lot of respect for Wikipedia when they buckeld to Jack Thompson demands, but i still go there, and do the odd bit of editing.

What's this now?

[Conan-san]

I lost a lot of respect for Wikipedia when they buckeld to Jack Thompson demands, but i still go there, and do the odd bit of editing. I dunno, the facts still seem to be there. I meen, come on, if the articale on that other goit who shall remain nameless due to the policy we have here wasn't locked, all hell would break lose.

But, seriouly, all anyone needs to do is read up on teh modest game preposal part of the JT thing and get a load of "I'm ok" to see just how far that rabbit hole goes.
Incidently, I do not condone I'm ok, it's a briliant piece of work but I don't have the stomach to play it myself.

[mikestorm]

As long as Caveat Emptor, it's an excellent resource. It has detailed info on just about any topic, scholastic or otherwise. Actually, the "or otherwise" info is mostly why I go.

There's a mozilla add on to the firefox search engine box to add a Wiki search engine, which is particularly useful if you want to query something that just randomly occurs to you.

Wiki gets a lot of hate, and while there's the occasional mistake, it's overwhelmingly useful. Just don't cite it in your thesis.

[HellCat]

As long as Caveat Emptor, it's an excellent resource. It has detailed info on just about any topic, scholastic or otherwise. Actually, the "or otherwise" info is mostly why I go.

There's a mozilla add on to the firefox search engine box to add a Wiki search engine, which is particularly useful if you want to query something that just randomly occurs to you.

Wiki gets a lot of hate, and while there's the occasional mistake, it's overwhelmingly useful. Just don't cite it in your thesis.

Funnily enough, I used Wikipedia briefly in an essay I got back today...tutor had no problems with it.

(I did verify it alongside other info before listing it).

[Michael24]

I've been going there a lot recently, cleaning up or adding to a few things, as well as creating some new entries. Was kind of a pain at first because I'm use to using HTML, but I quickly got used to how they format things there. Pretty easy, actually.

[Zinal]

It pretty good website, but I don't trust everything in that site.

[Gatomon41]

Oh yes I'm addicted to Wikipedia. It's like taking care of a lovely plant. Everyday you check to see how your little article has grown. I feel so happy when I work on Wikipedia :anime:

Plus, there's something about helping on an encyclopedia. It reminds me of the Encyclopedia Galatica project.

[Czar Gato]

I could spend hours surfing on it, but I've never actually edited or created an entry myself. I wouldn't use it as a primary source for a paper or anything, either, but it's good for a relatively informative read.

[purplehairedwonder]

Considering that I was too lazy to do any real research for my big government and philosophy papers during the last school year, I pretty much used Wikipedia exclusively and my teachers made no comment about it :ack: So basically I use it when I'm too lazy to really look into anything, though I don't usually browse it just for fun... though that probably would be pretty entertaining actually.

[SSJPabs]

Considering that I was too lazy to do any real research for my big government and philosophy papers during the last school year, I pretty much used Wikipedia exclusively and my teachers made no comment about it :ack: So basically I use it when I'm too lazy to really look into anything, though I don't usually browse it just for fun... though that probably would be pretty entertaining actually.I did that too in college, except I would also go find sources that had the same info as the wiki so I could cite them instead. Wikipedia will one day become the sum total of all humage knowledge and our legacy to the universe. I am so proud of it. Not a day goes by that I don't look up something. I even have the quick search wikipedia box on my firefox browser.

[HellCat]

Any articles you've had a hand in you're proud of? A few of mine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriallia_Haw (No suprise, most of this is mine though a number of others also worked on it. At about the start of the year it just re-directed to a general character list).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_Defender_Gundam_Force (Already existed, I just tried to smarten it up. I keep an eye on it since it's been a vandalism target).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_%28character%29 (Some minor additions. My biggest part is the section currently labelled 'Destiny')

[Gatomon41]

Here's a few of mine that I helped out since they were seedlings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_military_organizations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aliens_in_fiction_by_type

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDominium - mostly on the technology and government strucure sections

[veemonjosh]

Here's the pages I've created, but have been extended upon by other people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHA-LA_HEAD-CHA-LA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WE_GOTTA_POWER
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulin_Warriors


And I update the Toonami schedule each week:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonami

[Captain Harlock]

I've become addicted to reading Wikipedia, not so much contributing. I enjoy reading about history / plots of video games / profiles on video game characters. It usually only happened when I was bored, but now I'll actively read articles and branch out to read several at a time.

[Duke]

The only contributions I've done have been to the Pokémon anime pages, mostly expanding Team Rocket's role in the Toshihiro Ono manga and expanding the Pokémon bios.

[IanC]

What's this now?
He threatened to sue them over "false" info on his Wikientry, they buckled into his demands and now the entry is a shadow of its former self.

Its still pretty critical of him tho.

[Gokou Ruri]

I used to, but then idiots kept changing the info I put there into inaccurate, messy text. So I pretty much gave up on the place.

[Ryoutarou]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_and_mighty_color
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Range

Those are two of mine, I usually just stick to editing articles about J-bands and tokusatsu.

[Anthonynotes]

I used to, but then idiots kept changing the info I put there into inaccurate, messy text. So I pretty much gave up on the place.

I used to write and contribute stuff to Wikipedia as well until a few months ago, when I finally got annoyed with:

- people removing pictures I scanned/put up because it wasn't one of *their* pictures (and giving lame reasons for doing so)

- fixing constant mistakes was getting more of a chore than enjoyable (Smallville wasn't *always* in Kansas and Batman didn't *always* have the "winning" personality he has today, people...)

- fixing vandalism efforts/making pages neutral point-of-view written (and being accused of "being biased" when I do so)

- similarly, fixing stupid stuff added by overdevoted-but-off-topic fans of something was also getting old (Smallville the TV show-related characters, info, etc. doesn't belong on the Smallville-the-comic-town's page).

- feeling like I was the only one who either had writing/spelling skills or, in the comics page parts, had read any comics published before "Dark Knight Returns" (I had to add info on the Golden and Silver Age versions of various characters; Batman, Superman, Lois, Aquaman, etc. had 40+ years' worth of stuff published before Miller and Byrne came down the pike, people...).

- growing annoyed with grappling with people with (homophobic/hateful/obnoxious) political agendas (on one page devoted to a gay author for example).

Thus, I've decided if people want the Justice League page disproportionately focused on the last few years' worth of stories and Smallville's comic-related page to mention the cruddy Tom Welling TV show in an off-topic manner, be my guest...

-B.

[90'sCartoonMan]

::applauds Brainatra:: You tell 'em, Brainy, Wikipedia has its flaws.


Wikipedia will one day become the sum total of all humage knowledge and our legacy to the universe.

Wikipedia was created by the Brain Spawn (under the supervision of Brainiac, working in conjunction with the reverse vampires) so that they will have all human knowledge. Once they have collected all our information, they'll destroy our civilization.

You think you're so smart, Wikipedia, tell me what I had for breakfast last Saturday?!

[Ishtar]

For the most part I've seen it as a useful resource, and can tell most of the info there is accurate. However, ANYONE can edit it, so sometimes the information could turn out false. Lately on Toonzone, I've seen people complaing about how sometimes it posts news that turns out to be false. Reminds me when TV.com was TVTome, and many people here were complaing about false information it ocassionaly posted. I wonder if schools will start blocking Wikipedia or tell their students not to use it for research assigments if more teachers find out that ANYONE can edit it. My teacher found out about that fact and has been warning my classmates about that fact.

[Space Cadet]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_and_mighty_color




Wow, the sales for those bands would be considered flops here in the U.S.(especially since they're signed to Sony Music).

[Ryoutarou]

Wow, the sales for those bands would be considered flops here in the U.S.(especially since they're signed to Sony Music).They're considered flops in Japan as well.

[Space Cadet]

They're considered flops in Japan as well.
Oh. I thought sale numbers that would be considered flops here would be different in Japan(like the box office numbers in Japan).


Guess that's another thing Gundam SEED Destiny couldn't do either. *runs*

[HellCat]

Wanted to get this off my chest- just had part of an article I started edited. Specifically, a section title called 'Rumour' (me spelling it with a U because I'm British) edited to remove the U with a rather rude note- "This isn't the UK". Yeesh. Isn't it an English language Wiki, not an American Wiki?

[Ryoutarou]

What article would that be?

I always find people like that annoying, the ones that assume the internet is only American.

[HellCat]

What article would that be?

I always find people like that annoying, the ones that assume the internet is only American.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Elise New character debuting in the next Sonic game. Someone recently added some possible spoiler info a fansite got into trivia. The source is listed as anonymous but since the site in question is known for reliable news I split it into a new section titled "Rumours". That lead to this. It's funny because a few weeks back I followed an unused template link to create an article for the Gundam game MS Saga. A few weeks later someone shuffles it to a page using the Japanese title (which was mentioned in the original page amongst other localisation changes) with the logic "Wikipedia English Version is not USA Version". This makes it hard to keep track because most people contributing want to make the whole place as they personally see fit.

[Zach]

I use it constantly. I edit every now and then on some things, and on the Tom Morello article I have contributed much.

[Tay the Cat]

Any articles you've had a hand in you're proud of?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Sadler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Grand_Prix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Grand_Prix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_DeLisle

I started all 4 of 'em.

[Anthonynotes]

::applauds Brainatra:: You tell 'em, Brainy, Wikipedia has its flaws.



Thanks, 90'sCartoonMan... while I still look up a few things in Wikipedia occasionally (for quick reference items alongside a general web search), pretty much given up on trying to contribute anything to it (like I said above). (Shrug)

-B.

[Gatomon41]

Thanks, 90'sCartoonMan... while I still look up a few things in Wikipedia occasionally (for quick reference items alongside a general web search), pretty much given up on trying to contribute anything to it (like I said above). (Shrug)

-B.

Wikipedia does serve as a source of things you can't find in other encyclopedias. Where else can you find the Nika Roits and an article on the Romulan-Earth War :p

[Jaguar]

Wikipedia is strangely addictive, but, as noted, not the best source to cite in your paper. I find myself looking at articles for days on end; I think I've probably read tens of thousands of them since last year when I first stumbled upon the site (ironically through Answers.com).

[mystery]

I only use it for documentation regarding school projects or if I want to find out new things(which I do all the time).It can be really useful sometimes.

[SSJPabs]

Wow, the sales for those bands would be considered flops here in the U.S.(especially since they're signed to Sony Music).I just edited that page to correct a small error. You wouldn't think removing extra words like "that" and "made" would make a difference but the writing does flow tigheter that way, plus the tenses agree.

[soulman788]

Wikipedia is a great place to get information. Like I read this article about dragons and it was very interesting, I didn`t know there were european dragon and American Dragons.

heres a link to the Dragon page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon

[Kraven]

It's been discussed here in the past, but has anyone become 'addicted' to Wikipedia? I seem to have in the last few months. Started out with editing existing articles, now I've created 4 or 5 new ones. Generally I focus on cleaning up entries for things I like which have been thrown togethor.How do you edit articles? I never could figure it out, but that's just me.:sweat:

-Kraven

[Antiyonder]

When going over the Justice Society Of America Article, I added more info to the JSA in other media, concerning the Justice Guild. Because I put too much info, they had to make it into a separate section. My proudest moment so far.

Justice Guild Of America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Guild_of_America)

Even links to toonzone.

[The Landstander]

I think colleges are slowly becoming wiser to the whole citing Wikipedia thing; it seems every class at UB whenever a paper came up, a "don't cite Wikipedia" message followed.

Still a great starting point.

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Any articles you've had a hand in you're proud of? A few of mine

Mostly Prince of Tennis related stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fudomine_Middle_School Created a long time ago, when I was unregistered(before the change). Have also added more new info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kippei_Tachibana Created this one.

Done a lot of maintenance work on other Prince of Tennis related pages, too.

Got rather annoyed the other day when I spent a while editing in all the jutsu elements for Naruto, and someone deleted them and said it was 'obvious information'. Despite several of them not being 'obvious'.

[HellCat]

Someone's trying to fan the flames on the SEED Destiny entry. Because of all the controversy it once had a complaint section. Fans made it a complaints and praise section. Neither really worked because people added nitpicky things and in the latter form if something was listed in praise it'd get edited out of criticism. Right now we all agreed to just have a not mentioning the controversy and highlighting Morosawa as the key problem but someone now wants it back the old way.

[Juu-kuchi]

Someone's trying to fan the flames on the SEED Destiny entry. Because of all the controversy it once had a complaint section. Fans made it a complaints and praise section. Neither really worked because people added nitpicky things and in the latter form if something was listed in praise it'd get edited out of criticism. Right now we all agreed to just have a not mentioning the controversy and highlighting Morosawa as the key problem but someone now wants it back the old way. For some reason when it comes to Wiki articles like the ones on Gundam SEED Destiny (and sometimes parts of a DC character article that details his/her appearance in the DCAU), it really irritates me for some reason of how incredibly detailed they are, right down to the very minute tidbit of information.

Speaking of SEED though, I'm rather pleased that most of the original text I put up when I created the article on Rau Le Creuset (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rau_Le_Creuset) still remains. Other than that, most of my edits involve contributions to certain parts of articles, most notably any involving the SEED series. I added a great deal especially in regards to the bio on Neo Roanoke.

I tried to create an article about Martian Law (as seen in Sealab 2021's "Der Dieb") but they deleted that.

[Lord Dalek]

Haven't read the Seed Destiny article in a while, is my junk about Lacus going Seed Factor still in there?

[Conekiller]

For me, Wikipedia is a "when all else fails" info site. I'm rarely satisfied with what I read on it.

[veemonjosh]

If you ever need Kirby information, DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA!

From what I can gather from the massive uproar at the Kirby Rainbow Resort message boards, one of their former members is going crazy and making up crap to extend the profiles of the most insignificant characters, posting things like "Kirby is pink and I love him so much that I have every game, watched every episode, and dress up as Kirby", and other crap like that.

Of course, the members are fighting back, but for how long can they keep it up? (Wikipedia keeps putting the false information back and is giving warnings to the KRR members to not delete correct information.)

[Ickis]

I occaisionaly go to wikidpedia. I get alot of my MK info from there aswell as car-related info.

[Obi]

I can spend hours and hours browsing Wikipedia for obscure fortean stuff.

[Atoon]

I'm more addicted to the Uncyclopedia and the TV IV wiki.

[Tay the Cat]

(Wikipedia keeps putting the false information back and is giving warnings to the KRR members to not delete correct information.)
That wouldn't be Wikipedia doing that, as the admins there don't exactly have that power. The KRR members can ask an admin to protect the page from vandalism for the time being, however, until that can be resolved.