Top Ten Worst Things About Wikipedia
I love Wikipedia as much as the next person, but that doesn't make it any less annoying than the rest of the big websites out there.
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1)
Vandalism
“ugh duh this is the worst thing about it!”
“haha lol but i usually read the video game stuff I have see this though”
“Too many people browse around wikipedia just to damage stuff. Its madness!!”
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2)
People Who Take The Site Way Too Seriously
“All it takes for you to delete their (non-constructive) edit before they start harping on you, saying you’re destorying their right to free speech, or claim that there is an underground conspiracy against them.”
3)
Overzealous admins
“The website claims that all users should practice civility towards other users. Evidently that doesn’t apply to administrators. About 75% are some of the most power-hungry emotionally-unstable people out there. All you have to do is disagree with them once, and BAM! You’re gone for life”
4)
Factual Inaccuracies
“Their new cite your sources policy has solved this mostly, but remember when you can go and write how before Ronald Reagen was elected President, he was the creative force behind Pink Floyd? Ah, memories!”
5)
Userbox wars
“Anyone who was a member in 2005 remembers how controversial userboxes were. People thought that it was worth banning members and doing mass deletions over a set of harmless HTML. Such drama!”
6)
Typos
“Seriously, Wikipedia doesn’t come with spell check. Have we really forgotten about spelling, apostrophes, and periods?”
7)
Political Pushers
“Ah yes, the ones whose lives revolve around Googling stuff they agree with, and pushing it onto other people. Seriously, read the rules folks. Your essay about how the War in Iraq was the right way to go or the vast Anti-Communist conspiracy doesn’t belong.”
8)
Copyright Paranoia
“stupidity!”
“For a free-content encyclopedia that allows you to plagarize its content, they sure have an awful big fit if you don’t put every little letter into your own words, and than pounce on you for POV violations.”
9)
Willy on Wheels
“The infamous page-move vandal now has millions of unoriginal, uncreative clones. Boring!”
10)
Stephen Colbert
“While most of his observations are dead-on about the site, it’s annoying have to deal with his fans who insist on vandalizing every darn page on there to upgrade it to "Truthiness."”
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