Misplaced Pages

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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6930560.ece

From The Times November 25, 2009 Misplaced Pages: an anti-intellectual venture to its core Oliver Kamm: Commentary

The persistent decline in the number of Misplaced Pages editors may signal the end of the dominance of a remarkable online resource. It cannot happen too soon. Misplaced Pages is routinely cited in online articles as a substitute for explanations of concepts, events and people. It has thereby coarsened public culture. It is an anti-intellectual venture to its core.

Knowledge is democratic in the sense that no one has the right to claim the last word. Misplaced Pages is democratic in the different and corrosive sense that anyone can join in regardless of competence.

Every editor’s contribution is of equal value. That is an affront to the notion of disinterested intellectual inquiry. What Misplaced Pages prizes is not greater approximations to truth but a greater degree of consensus.

That ethos undermines Misplaced Pages in principle as a reference source. There are many Misplaced Pages articles that are scrupulous, balanced and fair treatments of their subjects. But these are liable to be overthrown at any time by an editor with an idée fixe and an empty life.

The default position of Misplaced Pages is to leave editors to sort it out among themselves. The loudest voices and most obsessive contributors become the arbiters of truth.

The periodic scandals that have afflicted Misplaced Pages are not accidents: its culture invites them. A supposed theology expert turned out to be a fantasist in his mid-20s. Jimmy Wales, founder of Misplaced Pages, declared that this impostor had “been thoughtful and contrite about the entire matter, and I consider it settled”.

It clearly didn’t occur to Mr Wales that claiming knowledge you don’t have and have never worked for is wrong. Misplaced Pages stands for vainglorious amateurism: it will be an easy act to follow. POV Detective (talk) 16:00, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

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