I've seen people use wikipedia in their links to explain things that maybe wouldn't be understood by the layman. I thought this was cool and I asked matt what it was all about. It was sort of confusing, but I decided that this would be the perfect venue for a strategic communication operation for my job, Sea Warrior.
I poured my heart into a very informative entry. The next time I went to the link, found it had been edited by some guy named Bbpen. Bbpen replaced all of my up-to-date material with an article from 2003 (yeah, two years ago) about how Sea Warrior was coming soon. I emailed this Bbpen and based on his response, soon developed a venomous contempt for Bbpen.
Fuck Bbpen, fuck wikipedia. This is nothing more than a way for communists, disguised as liberals to force people into conformity by putting restrictions on what information is distributed to the masses. How dare Bbpen change my posts merely because I didn't know the "rules" of wikipedia. He could have changed the post to reflect the rules if it was so important to him, but instead, he chose the change the content of my entry, which is classified as censorship.
It's frustrating to say the least. Even though I am a resident expert of Sea Warrior, this Bbpen has final authority over the content of the Sea Warrior information on wikipedia. This leads me to question the validity of the rest of the information on wikipedia. How many others have tried to add their genius to the archive only to have their information deleted by the wikipediacracy? It's a dark day in the history of the First and Fourteenth Ammendment to the United States Constitution!!
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I did a few Star Wars things for Wikipedia, and people went through and changed them, so I lost my taste for them. When there's no overseeing entity, everything turns to chaos, really, and that's what you have with Wikipedia. It's like - total anonymity alongside total power to alter. It naturally corrupts.
I looked at the Wikipedia editor's response. It was polite despite out obnoxious you were.
Coke,
I can only assume that you work for wikipedia because if you had experience the level of frustration that I did at the time I was dealing with the wikipedia editor, you would be, what you deemed, obnoxious as well. You are entitled to your opinion, however, but just put yourself in the position of someone who is an expert in something and who is squelched by an ignoramus.
Also, I just reviewed his response and now I have a vivid recollection of why I was so obnoxious (Coke's words, not mine). He was OVERLY polite, which is annoying.
And another thing, it really speaks volumes about a commenter when they do not leave a way for me to respond to them.
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