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Re:Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts, but It’s a Desert for P... by mquander on Monday July 20, 2009 @12:29PM (#714637)
In the linked article, whenever they mention a person with a particularly poor Wikipedia photo, they have a hyperlink. When I saw this, I thought, "how progressive for them to link to all the photos so I can see what they're talking about!"

Of course, they don't actually link to the Wikipedia photos, or even the Wikipedia page. They link to the near-useless, generic NY Times "more content about this" page for that name.

I guess it was never a mystery why people started leaving newspapers for blogs, was it?

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Re:Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts, but It’s a Desert for P... by cruise02 on Monday July 20, 2009 @01:47PM (#714776)
Not to mention that there are seven pictures of Halle Berry (still not enough) on her Wikipedia page, when they criticize one bad photo as if it were the only one there.
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