On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Erik Moeller wrote:
I doubt that the responsible Slashdot editor was aware that they were falling for a troll. Is there a lesson here somewhere? If so, it's perhaps that documentation of subcultures in Wikipedia is very much worth doing.
Wikipiedia has a general problem with sourcing anything that mainly appears on the Internet, because anything that is written in a personal website, blog, etc. is not considered professionally published and fails the reliable sources and self-published tests.
Or rather, the tests consistently fail the laugh test, but we as a community are too tight-sphinctered about our respectability to mind we fail big time in the comprehensivity department... /dour-sarcasm