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Wikipedia Admin's Manipulation "Messed Up Perhaps 15,000 Students' Lives"
Andreas Kolbe writes: Recently, "ArbCom", Wikipedia's highest court, banned an administrator account that for years had been manipulating the Wikipedia article of a bogus Indian business school – deleting criticism, adding puffery, and enabling the article to become a significant part of the school's PR strategy. Believing the school's promises and advertisements, families went to great expense to send sons and daughters on courses there – only for their children to find that the degrees they had gained were worthless. "In my opinion, by letting this go on for so long, Wikipedia has messed up perhaps 15,000 students' lives," an Indian journalist quoted in the story says. India is one of the countries where tens of millions of Internet users have free access to Wikipedia Zero, but cannot afford the data charges to access the rest of the Internet, making Wikipedia a potential gatekeeper.
Or as honest Abe said, "Anyone can make up quotes on the internet."
Can we please first start with the university of pheonix? Also, full sail is full of, well, shit.
And lastly, every liberal arts degree (philosophy, women's rights, literature, etc.) is pretty much a scam, but that's another story for another day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify :)
99% of the resumes that HR sent me were educated in India
Well, as they say on Mythbusters...there's your problem right there. Searching for honest employees and then only looking at resumes from Indians is like searching for sober employees and then only looking at resumes from Russians.
I saw the report Brian Williams did on that.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K