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by dingaling 4461 days ago
If it's wrong then please contribute to it and fix it. Your knowledge of this subject should be shared.

Online society's attitude to Wikipedia seems to have settled into two camps; those who refer to it as an authority and those whose avoid it due to negative experiences with inaccuracies or politics.

I'm trying to move from the second group to a third; patch-up articles for the benefit of other people.

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I have had mostly good experiences with Wikipedia regarding technical subjects. I think this was the first topic I came across that really stuck in my mind where Wikipedia was conspicuously wrong (which I affirmed even more after doing some research).

I will take your advice into consideration and attempt to amend that page. I don't know what the monitoring procedures are on wikipedia, and if they will allow such changes to persist.

The Guerilla Skepticism on Wikipedia people may be of assistance in following the rules and making sure your edits are sufficiently scientifically skeptical. http://guerrillaskepticismonwikipedia.blogspot.com/