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Title: Wikipedia and Skateboarding
Post by: koots on April 03, 2007, 06:27:35 PM
I don't like wikipedia.  It's not a good source of information. 
However, it's fun to just search around on it.  So today I decided to see what was on there about skateboaring. 
The first thing I searched was, "Rick McCrank."

Apparently he grew up in a poverty stricken area of Vancouver and saw skateboarding as his only escape....

 :-\

I'm gonna keep searching around to find more wrong shit.  What can you find?
Title: Re: Wikipedia and Skateboarding
Post by: gub on April 03, 2007, 07:47:04 PM
i don't know but i posted some egregiously wrong shit on the terry kennedy page and it was taken off in days
Title: Re: Wikipedia and Skateboarding
Post by: KoRnholio8 on April 04, 2007, 01:11:48 AM
wikipedia is very good source of information and if you had any idea how hard it is to find referenced information about skateoarders, you would be a lot more appreciative about what is written on the wiki... (there is, of course, quite some BS)

and skateboarders are the worst vandalizers ever... about 99.9% of contributions are pure vandalism and that takes a whole lot of energy to remove...

if you can put the skateboard history and present on wiki for the next generation to see, why wouldn't you? it's not like new skaters will come here and try to make the sense of all the hate threads and understand them...

and once more: don't be a stupid asshole and don't vandalise on wiki...
Title: Re: Wikipedia and Skateboarding
Post by: 60ticketatsaveon on April 04, 2007, 01:32:23 AM
i found this...WHO CARES
Title: Re: Wikipedia and Skateboarding
Post by: Sleazy on April 04, 2007, 05:39:29 AM
I don't like wikipedia.  It's not a good source of information. 

I think it's a great source
Title: Re: Wikipedia and Skateboarding
Post by: grimcity on April 04, 2007, 07:32:14 AM
It's a great initial source for a lot of things. Good entries (on any topic) will include citations and links to authoritive places.

It's better than a regular encyclopedia at least... mistakes happen in print, too, but once you buy a set of Brticannicas, you're stuck with them. At least contributors can fix bad Wiki entries when they catch them.
Title: Re: Wikipedia and Skateboarding
Post by: heckler on April 04, 2007, 08:26:53 AM
Wikipedia can be a good source of information, but like any other internet source, there is some BS.  But most of the time, it works fine.
Title: Re: Wikipedia and Skateboarding
Post by: Sleazy on April 04, 2007, 09:01:03 AM
for technical stuff, especially patterns it's really good
Title: Re: Wikipedia and Skateboarding
Post by: Maple Syrup on April 04, 2007, 12:18:49 PM
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I don't like wikipedia.  It's not a good source of information. 
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I think it's a great source
Title: Re: Wikipedia and Skateboarding
Post by: DrNewton on April 04, 2007, 01:10:35 PM
McCrank did grow up poor, I read that in a magazine or something.
Title: Re: Wikipedia and Skateboarding
Post by: gub on April 04, 2007, 01:19:48 PM
whoah, kornholio8, #1 wiki fan
Title: Re: Wikipedia and Skateboarding
Post by: sebastian toombs on April 04, 2007, 01:24:53 PM
I don't like wikipedia.  It's not a good source of information. 
However, it's fun to just search around on it.  So today I decided to see what was on there about skateboaring. 
The first thing I searched was, "Rick McCrank."

Apparently he grew up in a poverty stricken area of Vancouver and saw skateboarding as his only escape....

 :-\

I'm gonna keep searching around to find more wrong shit.  What can you find?

peterborough is such a poverty stricken part of vancouver that it took a bus across the country looking for work, and ended up stuck in a trailer park in eastern ontario...    but they got the 'petes' i guess.
Title: Re: Wikipedia and Skateboarding
Post by: KoRnholio8 on April 04, 2007, 01:26:26 PM
whoah, kornholio8, #1 wiki fan

nah, just a participant.