More wikipedia wackiness

From a friend.

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

An article on a French artist in 1904 mentions that he “publicly condemned the Armenian Genocide”.

Of course the Armenian Holocaust(which may have constituted a genocide) didn’t occur until almost eleven years later.

Also, I love the wikipedia classifying the Battle of Kosovo “as a draw”.

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

It was mourned for centuries as the crushing defeat of Christendom in the Balkans and the battle which forced Christians in the Balkans to submit to the Ottomans and Wikipedia claims it was “a draw”.

That’s certainly not the way Serb nationalists have traditionally viewed it.

Wiki wacky? Whoo!

The writer probably conflated the genocide with the Hamidian massacres of the 1890’s.

Wiki.

more wackiness
“The historicity of Winkelried or his deed cannot be substantiated.”
That just makes me so ANGRY! :wink:

Brilliant.

I actually thought it was Wakipedia; until someone corrected me.

Wankipedia. Apparently.

She used to sing to me by moonlight
On Honolu-u-lu bay …

I once claimed that the French first popularized the modern drinking straw, and would often signal an end to their meals by shoving one up each nostril, like a walrus.

I was unable to find a cite for my claims, and somebody deleted it within 20 minutes.

That’s hardly a compelling defense of wikipedia.

There’s a reason it’s nearly universally regarded as an extremely undeniable source.

I first noticed this during the Oscar telecasts; despite pointing it out in the Discussion section, the phony actor names are all still there, except for the 1950’s movies I edited, at which point I said “fuck it, let the next slob fix the rest”. More than a month later and I’m still waiting, despite dozens of other edits in the meanwhile.

So edit it, or at least mention it on the talk page. That’s how Wikipedia is supposed to work, it’s not magically accurate from the beginning.

Oh, come on John DiFool! Gone with the Wind would have been *nothing *without Bob Hope.

Frankly, my dear, Wankipedia doesn’t give a damn.

No encyclopedia should be used as a primary source.

What is it that’s so wrong? I can’t tell. There is a table showing Academy Award ceremony dates and the Hosts for the awards. The column on the right (Hosts) is supposed to be the Masters of Cermony for that particular award ceremony, not actors in the movie that was the Best Picture winner. Or am I totally confused?

D’oh.

I meant unreliable.

Yes, but encyclopedia’s with reliable editors aren’t at the mercy of activists with axes to grind.

Moreover, most encyclopedia’s at least have some regulations to control the quality of their sources.

Wikipedia certainly doesn’t and that’s why it’s utter shit when it comes to just about any remotely controversial topic.

There’s a reason high school teachers and college professors usually forbid it being used as a cite, which is not necessarily the case with more reliable encyclopedias.

It is I, Arnold Winkelried perpetuating misinformation in true Wanki form.

You are indeed correct.

…though I’m sure I remember Whoopi Goldburg in Schinder’s List

Never mind

Y’all need to check this out.

Except John DiFool seems to be saying that he is putting the movie actors in the right-hand (Hosts) column because that is what should be in there?