User:Rursus/Why wikipedia s*xx!!

Brasklapp: OK, my real opinion is that (the English) Wikipedia rulezz ... mostly. I've used it very much, and it is enormously valuable for fact mining, but not quite seldom I get fits of irritation and annoyment from some idiotic tendencies in it. This page is a try to pinpoint why Wikipedia won't quite help us reach the Eternal Bliss of The Singularity very soon, but rather much-much-much-...-much later.

Idiotic tendencies

Outside academics refer to Wikipedia!!

INSERTME: Damned IDIOTS!! Wikipedia refers to outside academics for verification, then those outside academics refer to Wikipedia! Warning from circular "truths" and circular "conventional wisdom"!

Idiosyncratic conceptions

To be fetched from: User:Rursus/Wikipedia idiosyncratic conceptions.

Hoax cleanup

INSERTME: Richontaban star name hoaxes.

INSERTME: Jagged85 pseudosourcing falsifications.

Personal advertizing, personal POV

INSERTME: Programming languages – Vala, Seed7

INSERTME: Crap articles within areas of Religion and Philosophy, containing POV, essays, defended by angry Mastodons.

INSERTME: Crap lists containing numeric WP:SYNTH.

No fast response channel

INSERTME: Needs a real "police".

INSERTME: Every article have its own independent discussion channel instead of a central communication flow with topic delegations.

Bad consensus philosophy

INSERTME: Consensus mostly based on opinions of Random Walkers, not on a structural knowledge consensus – unless the articles themselves count – in which case Wikipedia defines its own circular "truth" by adhering to itself perfectly.