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The Register Takes Aim at Wikipedia Again

Syberghost writes "The Register has fired off another salvo in their long-running war of words with Wikipedia, in the form of an article about the lack of "moral responsibility" from the operators of Wikipedia. Wikipedia users fired back less than an hour later, making the Register headline obsolete."

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  1. Fired back? by hesiod · · Score: 4, Funny

    If that Wiki entry is firing back, the gunpowder must have been wet.

  2. Re:Ha by servognome · · Score: 5, Funny

    wikipediOWNED!

    UGH, it's wikipediPWNED! I'm so sick and tired of poor spelling on /.

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  3. Re:Moral Victory by winkydink · · Score: 5, Funny

    online debating is to real debating as wikipedia is to a real encyclopedia

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  4. The Register is a bunch of hypocrites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you knew their history, you would know why.

    Founded in Nazi Germany by Adolph Hitler they were used to register all Jews marked for death in concentration camps. During the 60's, they supported neo-Nazis in America and were involved in the Kennedy Assassination. In the 90's they started covering IT news.

      - From WikiPedia

  5. Re:Moral Victory by KDan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, of course. In the wonderful world of the Wikipedists, anything they say is golden because it's in a kind of encyclopedia, which automatically justifies it as being the absolute truth and if you don't like it you can change it yourself or go whine about it on slashdot and claim that the "Wikipedia has fired back" and if this is a firing back then the ammo was a fart and I'm getting bored of writing in this long add-on sentence style that resembles some Wikipedia articles and so I'm going to stop now.

    Daniel

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  6. Re:57 electoral votes... by Synic · · Score: 3, Funny

    so correct it? that's the whole point, jackass

  7. Thank goodness for The Register by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm glad we have an authoritative opinion on this issue, otherwise I wouldn't know what to think about Wikipedia. Those reckless ne'er-do-wells should heed this criticism, because as we all know, British tabloids have never had their credibility called into question due to the publication of libelous or inaccurate information.

    I attribute this scandal to the streak of rugged individualism present in American culture. When will you Yanks learn that the truth is decided by experts, and that expertise is determined by well-known and respected members of a field?

  8. Re:Reliability and quality come from accountabilit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    An engineer who makes one mistake, even if it is not fatal, will lose his license. Why is that? Because said mistakes cannot be tolerated.

    Is this erroneous information something you picked up reading Wikipedia, or is it just a product of your own personal ignorance and stupidity?

  9. Re:If the troll label fits by autophile · · Score: 4, Funny
    Nope, Andrew Orlowski is a troll. I still have no idea why The Reg keeps him on.

    You must be new to British tabloid journalism.

    --Rob

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  10. Re:Moral Victory by DrSkwid · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've got 3 Register T-Shirts and 0 Wikipedia ones

    victory to vulture central

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