February 01, 2008
Beloved Soccer Fans Evicted From Wikipedia
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Philadelphia -- well, Chester -- might be getting a state-funded soccer team in MLS, but not all is rosy for the team's fan club, the Sons of Ben.
Yes, someone has nominated their Wikipedia article for deletion, and it appears to be destined to be removed from Wikipedia. While the Sons of Ben have gotten a couple mentions in the news, it appears that these Wikipedia editors have been on the receiving end of the group's emails, which usually are sent five times in a row or so.
Or perhaps it's just this: "Not only not notable, but also totally lame. Linking to user pages from the article just shows what a joke it is." Oh, you showed them!
Posted by D-Mac on February 1, 2008 12:49 PM
Posted to Chester
, Internet Drama
, MLS
, Sons of Ben
, Wikipedia
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Comments
80% of wikipedia is innacurate? where do you get your statistics? or do you just make them up? oh, i see, you were being ironic
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html
Posted by: nipsey russell at February 4, 2008 01:04 PM
Not only that, but every single error on Wikipedia identified by Nature in the above review was rectified within around 35 days. The same cannot be said of Brittanica.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_peer_review/Nature_December_2005/Errors
Posted by: Anonymous at February 7, 2008 06:27 AM
wikipedia is lame. 80 percent of the information on that overrated site is inaccurate. death to wikipedia.
Posted by: anon at February 1, 2008 02:13 PM