User:Cubdriver
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After six months' active participation in a score or so of Wiki articles, I've decided that the whole enterprise is so flawed as not to be worth pursuing. Indeed, I've come to regard Wiki as a perfect example of the thousand-monkey scenario, and proof if any be needed that a thousand monkeys typing at a thousand keyboards will never write a novel, and even less will they create a reliable reference work.
Too many articles are held hostage by a coterie that establishes a consensus among two or three "editors", and uses that presumed authority to prevent any diverging additions. Other articles are created or altered by somone with only the vaguest grasp of history, and go uncorrected for months or forever. In either case, the monkey with the most time on his hands will win out in the end.
It's a hopeless task. In my judgment, anyone who devotes any time to Wiki is a fool or, worse, has an agenda that justifies his labor at the expense of those who foolishly rely on Wiki as a source of information.
