Wikipedia is a Blog. The word vandalism, as used internal to this Blog, has no determinate meaning to outsiders. As far as external observers can tell, Wikipedia users are constantly vandalizing the subject matters to which many of them have dedicated their lives and sacred honors. By and large, Wikipedia website "administrators" are engaged in a form of anti-education that is warping the minds of naive people about the very nature of knowledge, and there is no reason that real educators should have to respect what goes on there.

The word encyclopedia, as used internal to the Wikipedia Blog, vandalizes the very meaning of the word. Wikipedia has not earned the right to appropriate this word because Wikipedia adamantly refuses to do the things that it would take to earn anybody else's respect.

People of good will and intelligence granted the Wikipedia experiment the initial benefit of the doubt. In time they began to warn the Wikipedia populace about the collapse of credibility that it was headed for. But all that people of good will and intelligence got for their troubles was a constant stream of spit in their faces.

Jonny

I'm not afraid to say that I find Mr. Cache rather irritating to read a lot (if not most!) of the time.

I'm not afraid to say that I find Mr. Cache rather irritating to read a lot (if not most!) of the time. I read and type plain English at high speed, which allows me to use WR at the same time as work, something which isn't possible with Mr. Cache a lot of the time.

But when he gets it right - I don't think any other poster comes close. And with the top 10 (7,5,?) reasons not to invest, I think we should nominate the top 10 Cache posts on Wikipedia.

Here's one for starters:

Don't tell us — tell them —

Speakin' o' wikipissin' into the wind ...

Jonny

No offense to anyone, but I found Nobs to be the least understandable person here. I pretty much understand Jonny Cache now and he does stay on the subject.

Do we call these Cache-isms? Cacheisms?

I don't know but they certainly are cache-y (Damn I'm going to be kicking myself for that one tommorow).

Durova is what you might call — he bites his tongue, grits his teeth, and strains his brain in search of a polite e-uphemism, ah, there it is — an e-thusiast. Less politely if more straightfwdly said, she's every bit as wacked out as a kid on crack.

There oughta be a public service ad campain for that —

Cue da hip-rap-woteva-sorta-noys-da-puncs-2day-like music …

This is your brain on Durova …

Jonny

Why should [w]e deny users the right to add what they know?[1]
He resigned, a couple of days ago [2]
I guess the distinction is that they don't openly advocate publication of false information. [3]
"Original research! Need citation!"[4]