Re: Wikipedia Apple II (mis)info

["bill.martens@gmail.com" <bill.martens@gmail.com>]

On Jan 8, 9:36 am, mojoehand <jg...@zianet.com> wrote:
> On Jan 7, 3:59 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > I revised the Wikipedia entry, deleting the incorrect "mode", and
> > re-wrote the confused and incorrect description of the 15-pin video
> > output connector, but my updates to entries have not always survived.
> > ;-)
>
> > -michael
>
> You too, huh? A few weeks ago I corrected a major factual error and
> added some additional factual data to a Wikipedia article (not
> computer related). My edits were based on first hand knowledge from 24
> years ago. Everything I entered was removed and the incorrect data was
> reinstated. When I emailed Wikipedia to ask about it, I was told that
> first hand knowledge was not wanted, only something that I could site
> from someone else. If you ask me, that seems rather stupid.

This is exactly why educational institutions refuse to allow Wikipedia
as a resource.  Many of my fixes and entries lately also have not
survived and I finally just gave up on editing anything on there.  If
you are going to add Apple II information, then I would suggest we all
put it on Tony Diaz's Wiki site and make that the defacto information
site. (i.e. just point the wikipedia pages to it lol).

JMHO
--billm--