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No stake or money for me - just an interest in what I believe to be one of the biggest liberal threats on the net right now.

I actually found FR by watching some libs trash it in a Wikipedia discussion.

Good show.

I think in the long run discussions in FR will prove to be more trustworthy and truthful than articles posted/edited/posted/edited in Wikipedia.

The element of Wikipedia I've found most useful are the cross-references folks place there when they write/edit a piece. They all too frequently "point" to the correct word that's just out of reach in my mind, and I can take it from there.

As far as using Wikipedia as an authoritative source, it's not. Rather, it's more like a compendium of opinions about tertiary sources which themselves are far downstream from the secondary and primary sources.

I've added a few things myself on some of the Wikipedia pieces ~ usually when I've found an out and out mistake, and sometimes when the material is clearly "opinion".

These could do worse, and have, by getting the authoritative interest of Freepers in preparing and maintaining suitible encyclopedia pieces.

Umm, some of the biggest threats are the latimes.com, the nytimes.com, salon.com, etc. I agree with your concept - a more balanced group of editors will give a generally more balanced resource.

I don't agree with your methods, however. I'm sure that plenty have gone there, edited an entry, and minutes later had that entry restored, thereby demonstrating to them the futility of trying to change a liberal mind, and in effect validating your charge.

Had that been my only experience there, I would have just shrugged and ignored this post. Instead I've gone through and edited dozens of articles, fixing grammar here and there, spell checking, and indeed, putting in accurate facts rather than the latest liberal drivel to come off the line.

To others: If you're a fan of any topic, there's an entry in the wikipedia for it, and likely a couple, and likely in desperate need of real editing. Avoid the hotspots, find topics you're comfortable in demonstrating authoritative knowledge in, and dig in and have fun. If you happen by those hotspots later on, people will take your point of view more seriously, and in the meantime you're going to be improving a resource that people do indeed use as a reference.