Wikipedia and Skateboarding

[koots]

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?

[gub]

i don't know but i posted some egregiously wrong shit on the terry kennedy page and it was taken off in days

[KoRnholio8]

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...

[60ticketatsaveon]

i found this...WHO CARES

[Sleazy]

I don't like wikipedia.  It's not a good source of information. 

I think it's a great source

[grimcity]

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.

[heckler]

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.

[Sleazy]

for technical stuff, especially patterns it's really good

[Maple Syrup]

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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

[DrNewton]

McCrank did grow up poor, I read that in a magazine or something.

[gub]

whoah, kornholio8, #1 wiki fan

[sebastian toombs]

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.

[KoRnholio8]

whoah, kornholio8, #1 wiki fan

nah, just a participant.