David Gerard fun at thingy.apana.org.au:
If we know any non-insane JFK assassination experts on the wiki, please get them on the case
Yeah, I guess that's me.
There are 102 articles in [[Category:JFK assassination]], almost all of which I have watchlisted, and I've tried to remove the worst of the insanity from most of them and made significant rewrites to the most important ones. Some days it's all I can do (with significant help from JimWae) to keep the main assassination article and [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] free of utter nonsense and conspiracy speculation, and I find myself getting into bizarre talk page arguments about Oswald's childhood TV viewing habits and whether or not he was molested as a teenager by his supposed CIA contact. (Yes, those arguments really happened.) [[Kennedy assassination theories]] is one that I've largely avoided, apart from removing the more bizarre theories involving aliens and so forth. Mark's probably got the best solution - "replace the article with a stub, insisting that any of the removed claims be referenced before being readded." It's probably best to start from scratch.
I've thought about starting a WikiProject on this topic to police and improve these articles, but I never got around to it, mostly because I didn't really think anyone would be interested besides myself.
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Rob wrote:
David Gerard fun at thingy.apana.org.au:
If we know any non-insane JFK assassination experts on the wiki, please get them on the case
Yeah, I guess that's me.
Eeeexxcellent!
[[Kennedy assassination theories]] is one that I've largely avoided, apart from removing the more bizarre theories involving aliens and so forth. Mark's probably got the best solution - "replace the article with a stub, insisting that any of the removed claims be referenced before being readded." It's probably best to start from scratch.
Indeed.
I've thought about starting a WikiProject on this topic to police and improve these articles, but I never got around to it, mostly because I didn't really think anyone would be interested besides myself.
And a bundle of lunatics, of course!
- d.
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Rob wrote:
I've thought about starting a WikiProject on this topic to police and improve these articles, but I never got around to it, mostly because I didn't really think anyone would be interested besides myself.
Never underestimate the amount of interest in apparent trivia Wikipedia brings out of otherwise unremarkable people.
Somewhat OT: has anyone ever read David Lodge's novel, _Changing Places_? In it he describes a parlor game called "Humility" where each player tries to think of a book he has not read -- but everyone else has, & thus scores a point for each person. Some variant on this idea might be worth a BoF at the next Wikimania.
Geoff