[WikiEN-l] the verifiability of articles we already HAVE

[Fred Bauder]

I ran into this problem with [[BatMUD]]. Anything I write is from  
personal experience or is drawn from material written by group which  
controls the game. This makes it impossible to resolve content  
conflicts as each party has a perfect reason for deleting the content  
of the other. Original research or autobiographical writing. So the  
article does not contain the sharp criticisms it might, nor does it  
fully satisfy those who would promote the site. I gave up struggling  
over this due to my position as an arbitrator. Not seemly to get into  
a dirty edit war when I'm in the wrong from edit one even if the  
other party is too.

Fred

On Apr 26, 2006, at 7:30 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:

> The real problem is not that we have an extremely detailed article
> about MapleStory. In fact, that is a good thing. Who will describe the
> cultural artifacts of the early 21st century in detail, if not us?
> Academia can never catch up with the pace of development of these
> games. Incidentally, I was recently trying to learn more about the
> MMORPG phenomenon, and guess what my best source of information was?
> Wikipedia, of course.