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Why the hate for Wikipedia? In my humble opinion it is the clearest embodiment of internet ideals.

I'm a Wikipedian, and between posting my first comment here and replying to yours, I was just posting to a talk page of a biography article on yet another pseudoscientist who has too many credulous followers on Wikipedia. I like Wikipedia well enough to roll up my sleeves to try to make it better, but I dearly wish that more Wikipedians knew more about how to look up reliable sources before adding edits to the encyclopedia that any bozo can edit.

I know the editing wars take a toll on Wikipedians(thanks for being one) but I still have to take issue with the idea that useful articles on Wikipedia are rare. As for being the encyclopedia that any bozo can edit, that is true, but unavoidable. Think how much worse off HN would be if it disallowed comments by any bozo(looking in mirror).

The opposite problem can happen. I've had a problem with the page for my local hackerspace. Someone nominated it for deletion. I found numerous legit sources, which the deltionist did no research and dismissed with bogus arguments the source (a government funded technology incubator was dismissed as "only a blog"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...

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