[WikiEN-l] Ian McKellen's article - a challenge

[Will (Zsinj) Bumgarner]

Pete Bartlett wrote:

>Fair use quote follows:
>
>"Empire: I looked you up on Wikipedia...
> McKellan: I don't understand Wikipedia. I've looked myself up on it and it's thoroughly objectionable. It's just taken, as the basis of my career, an article that was written about five years ago, and why someone doesn't correct it.. is that how it's done?
> Empire: Pretty much. If you want to change something, you can go on and correct it yourself.
> McKellan: Oh... I suppose if you wanted to know someone's dates, or where they were born, it would be quite useful."

What I don't understand is when people look themselves up and see
erroneous information, they don't just go and fix it. It's as if they
have something to prove by saying "Wikipedia sucks" instead of
contributing to the effort and making Wikipedia better.

--Zsinj