Comments on: Wikipedia’s information has a nerd slant? I think not.

By: koobs13

koobs13 — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:26:33 +0000

I don’t think its nerdy, I do think howeva that is gives valuable info though. Whos the idiot who sed that N-E-wayz? They need to get their facts str8.

By: David

David — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:34:00 +0000

The summaries could be made shorter.

Nah, if I change them, then I’ll have broken my non-editing of Wikipedia stuff. I’m at zero edits so far

By: Gary King

Gary King — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:58:04 +0000

David, I’m sure they already are summaries. The information in the actual articles for each section are so big that the summaries are also extremely big.

If you are unsatisfied about them, then change them yourselves

P.S.
I’m at 3000+ edits on Wikipedia so far

By: David

David — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:06:41 +0000

The New York sections are also supposed to be summaries. I doubt duplicate content would cause mass hysteria and confusion. More like twinges of annoyance that may result in smashed monitors if the person is sensitive these things.

By: Gary King

Gary King — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:56:31 +0000

David, the whole point of those sections in Modern Warfare are to be summaries, otherwise we would be dealing with duplicate content across multiple articles. This will cause confusion and mass hysteria.

By: David

David — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:47:25 +0000

Well, if we look at the… Wait… Hm. I don’t know. I just like to nitpick =)

Modern Warfare has shorter summaries. All we need to do is make them less brief and the Modern Warfare article would be bigger than the Lightsaber Combat.

By: Gary King

Gary King — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:50:34 +0000

David, Modern Warfare v. Lightsaber Combat was given by Arrington, not me.

You’re right that it’s expected that NYC is larger because it’s such a popular city, but so is Modern Warfare, as you pointed out.

By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:30:06 +0000

Wait David – if Gary’s argument is pointless, how is Arrington’s argument any less pointless?

By: David

David — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:50:54 +0000

Your comparisons are hardly fair. Modern Warfare is an umbrella term, while Lightsaber Combat is so specific. It’s like comparing Television Program and Star Trek: The Next Generation. A more fair comparison would be taking a category from Modern Warfare, like Aerial Warfare and then comparing that to Lightsaber Combat. For Prime Number versus Optimus Prime, the Optimus Prime article also leads to other lengthy articles. And can you really say Optimus Prime is nerdier than Prime Numbers? Come on, mathematics isn’t nerdy??? The comparison of New York City and Vice City also isn’t fair. Come on, you’re pitting one of the biggest and most famous cities versus a fictional city in a computer game. Why not compare the planet Earth with the planet Vulcan while you’re at it?

Yeah, I’m just bored and felt like having a pointless argument =P

By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:11:41 +0000

Well caught