[WikiEN-l] "How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit", _The Atlantic_

Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Thu May 17 11:05:24 UTC 2012


On 16 May 2012 19:41, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Charles Matthews
> <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> And why haven't they taken those who generalise broadly from a single
>> example with them?
>
> Are you denying the general decline in editors, even as Internet usage
> continues to increase?

Are you perpetrating a "straw man" fallacy? I'll happily assert that I
find fewer hoax articles than I used to (in fact none I think for a
couple of years). One crafted to get past New Pages Patrol doesn't
mean much.

Charles



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