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- Name: Steve Curtis
- Home: Dallas, Texas, USA
- Age: 41
- Current profession: Network Operations Manager for a small software company
- Avocations: Wanna-be superhero, geek errant, sometime writer of SF/F, WoW addict
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There is a type of creature worse than the clown who blanks pages or replaces words with obscenities or cute comments about their school mates: I am talking about the villain who subtly tries to change entries, to change information hoping no one will notice. This is not silliness. This is not goofing off. This is destructive malice for its own sake. There is no payoff for the villain except knowledge that he has deliberately deceived people, that he has deliberately sown chaos into a system whose only purpose is to make information more accessible to everyone. Some people argue that Wikipedia is "unreliable" because it can be edited by anyone. But the villain who pretends to claim he is helping people by increasing Wikipedia's unreliability is a moral cesspool. Many people think the person who disagrees with them about some issue or another is a "bad guy." But the true bad guys are those who hurt people just for the sake of hurting them, and--in the case of Wikipedia--those who deceive people just for the sake of deceiving them. --SECurtisTX | talk 16:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
