I saw a video of it happening in africa, not china... but i guess it goes in china too:-( Alright here's in china: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXzsqTFwV3Q And africa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxwv9akJ62g We need to stop buying and producing toxic crap i guess

Of course academia is flawed and it serves the elites, but the point is that wikipedia is worse than academia while posing as a haven of freedom and libertarianism. Wikipedians use the libertarian structure of the net to implement a totalitarian agenda. Their pyramidal power structure, their shadowy power practices, the orwellian declarations of their CEO, everything fits into that theory. I couldn't care less about academia. But I'm sure we'll all regret it if wikipedia and other new-age false-libertarian corporations take its place. And that's what this story is all about. That's what wiklipedia is about : inventing a totalitarian structure for the government of the masses in the coming age. Already the numerization of information is in place : newspapers routinely edit their own old articles, libraries are being numerized, don't you see that's it's an orwellian dream? History can be and is being rewritten to suit the leaders' needs on a daily basis.

i understood he meant that sloppy writers write ambiguous statements : statements that can be taken to mean different and/or contradictory things. Whereas good writers will know how to weed out such ambiguities from their articles. I guess experience teaches them that.

Oh yes, so true. Thank you for saying this. This discussion is dangerously veering into the politically correct. Wikipedia is much worse than this talk makes it look. Thanks for talking about the totalitarian power (ridiculously "petty" as you aptly put it) exterted by wikipedia admins. Wikipedia is a trap, a trick, a propaganda machine and a totalitarian project. The way power is exerted in there, the quotes from its CEO, everything concurs to this conclusion. Appearance of freedom is the bait (appearance of network-power-structure), hidden pyramidal power structure is the claw.