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Old 12-28-2010, 10:04 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65 View Post
Wikipedia is fun to read but is an awful source. There's a reason nobody accepts it in academia.

Another example: back when the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky were still around, we had gotten word on GMI that the Kappa platform was on its way out, which wasn't surprising considering how GM lost money on every single Kappa sold. I was poking around Wikipedia and stumbled across the article for the Kappa platform and decided I'd edit it to include that info, perfectly formatted with its own section and everything. A few hours later, I looked at the article and found that one of the so-called experts who was moderating the site had deleted my revision, saying that there was no evidence that the Kappas were going away and had also warned me that "vandalism" would not be tolerated and I would be banned if I continued to do so.

A few months later and the Kappa platform was gone. Shame that I don't remember the name of that idiot, I'd love to make him eat his words.
I would have made him pay!
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