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To: Star Traveler

Are you rebutting my assertion that there’s something wrong with Wikipedia by pointing out the shortcomings of a different site?

It is indeed a disgrace that the entire world has allowed the commies in the State Department to bury the information on Mao’s repellent sexual habits.


32 posted on 02/15/2010 11:43:59 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc
You were saying ...

Are you rebutting my assertion that there’s something wrong with Wikipedia by pointing out the shortcomings of a different site?

Yes, I am... I'm using the conservative counterpart to Wikipedia, which is "Conservapedia" to show you a comparison between the conservative version of the information and the so-called (as you assert) liberal version of the information -- using Mao as that example (since it has been discussed here already).

But, please... feel free to give me another encyclopedic source of information on the net that will present more complete information than either Wikipedia or Conservapedia. I would like to have that as a reference, too... :-) [and I do have both of those sites listed on my bookmarks here...]

And in that comparison of your asserted "liberal presentation" (which you say is Wikipedia), I find that presentation to be much more complete and gruesome about Mao as a dictator and killing millions of people than I find in Conservapedia, which is supposed to be the "conservative version".

WELL... the fact of the matter is that whether you want to label Wikipedia liberal or not -- they do present more complete information on this article, they reference from sources that are listed, they are not holding back on Mao in his gruesome details and in just about every category of Mao, I see more complete information about him in Wikipedia.

Sorry..., but I'm going to take more complete information and those references that they cite (which enables me to check out sources...).

I would rather be working with more complete information than a paltry little bit that I found over at Conservapedia.

So, when I want a quick reference to something and some quick details and need encyclopedic information on the net... I do know where to go as the first "entry point" for getting that information -- and that's at Wikipedia. And then, from that point, I can easily research out any more detailed information that I need from various sources that I may find, after that -- if I need to even do that at all.

And in most case, I never even need to do that, because I'm only looking for a little piece of information here or there, and that's it.

39 posted on 02/16/2010 7:15:29 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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