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ralphyde
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 Posted - 07/28/2007 : 08:10:50
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Yesterday on Wikipedia, some anonymous user had posted on the 'tension myositis syndrome' topic next to the link to this forum, in the External links section:
"Don't try to get any good advice on this website, as most of the people are a little too high strung."
So I don't know who or what posts were being referred to, but it's worth thinking about. Any thoughts?
Ralph
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Redsandro
Netherlands
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Posted - 07/28/2007 : 08:29:34
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I am not a Wikipedia contributor so I don't know about editing policies, but that is definitely a subjectified opinion expressed by someone stepped on his/her toes on this forum. I've seen a flamewar or 10 on the forum and it gave me some minutes of enjoyment to read, but most importantly, this forum has been of great help to me.
This is not a government paid center for medical help, it's a gathering of humans in their spare time and like in any forum, unless rediculously moderated to the point of being lame, a forum is prone to have a discussion including some flames every now and then.
I'd definitely edit such lines out of wikipedia, or opt for removal or however it works.
Back when I had more spare time I expressed the desire to convert this place to a modern forum and volunteered to help with database conversion, but there wasn't much discussion about it and the original founders of this place seem to be very occupied.
I still think renewing the forum software and making more subforums would make things more organised, and assigning some moderators to move heated discussions out of a serious help forum into a offtopic forum will make newbie's see a much cleaner list of serious issues and information.
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armchairlinguist
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Posted - 07/28/2007 : 10:52:11
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That material should be removed from Wikipedia -- and indeed you've already removed it :-). As Redsandro said, it's a subjective opinion and doesn't belong in an encyclopedia.
As for the forum, it's no worse than any other and better than many.
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Edited by - armchairlinguist on 07/28/2007 10:53:35 |
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