Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat

Re:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat by ben_w on Monday November 20, 2017 @05:22AM (#15738956)

The talk pages are a fine example of holding a hammer and treating everything as a nail. That anyone can edit a page makes it usable as a discussion board, but because anyone can edit everyone else’s comments, there is a need to enforce the extra layer of rules you just described.

Would be much better if talk pages acted like actual chat boards.

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Re:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat by amelius on Monday November 20, 2017 @05:56AM (#15739090)

Reading this, I'm amazed that Wikipedia functions at all.

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Re:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat by alt2501 on Monday November 20, 2017 @06:41AM (#15739238)

Agreed. The article also made me think a little too... I mean there must be some seriously... Um, dedicated, people out there working on this stuff, and somehow it trundles along, and the end result is pretty damn good. Life I guess.

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Re:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat by qubex on Monday November 20, 2017 @08:48AM (#15739818)

I agree that they should indeed function as chat pages.

I didn’t “vandalise” the other contributor’s comment willy-nilly. I corrected the spelling, but I explicitly left a mention of what it had been before I changed the spelling, why my spelling was better, a reference to sources and citations thereof, and so forth.

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