Originally Posted by
Amelia G
Uhm, yeah, it does bother me that (1) I am not a public figure, yet people keep trying to put an entry for me on that libelous nonsense site and (2) the last time I looked (admittedly at least a year or two ago), almost everything it said about Blue Blood was egregiously wrong with no cites backing up any of the ridiculous stuff on there. Only there are people who really believe that is an encyclopedia, so it is damaging when people believe inaccurate information about a company, the company's history, how many people work for the company, what capacities they work for it in, what the company's main products are, where the company can be found on the web, etc.
If one nasty little person is up there spewing libel, there is no clear system for getting it addressed. I like my media with accountability.
I will be second in line for the first good attorney who wants to start a class action lawsuit against those criminals against human achievement over at Wikipedia.
And allow me to be clear: I don't recall the precise ludicrous wikiality I put up there for mint, but I promise you it was deeply false and inappropriate for a reference work. My mother knows I don't like the taste of mint, so that was part of it, but I actually agree that mint can't be categorically factually said to taste either good or bad. If someone does a study, it would be fair to say that "X% of the population enjoys the taste, X% hates it, and X% is indifferent, according to X and So Study with a sampling of X people", but no real encyclopedia would ever purport to be able to factually state whether mint has a pleasing or displeasing taste.
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