Resistance is futile. You will be misinformed

[msmercenary]

My friend Chalain once noted an interesting characteristic about me.  "The good news is that Pi can be taught," he says.  "The bad news is that Pi has to be taught."  So it is with editing Wikipedia.

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[darthparadox]

See, if you were a good Wikipudlian, you'd have waded further into the talk page and spent three hours of discussion trying to bring all three of you into consensus.

The problem with Wikipedia editing is the same problem that politics (and particularly petty politics) tends to have in general: the people with the most "authority" are the people willing to spend the time developing that authority instead of doing something useful with their time.

[mzmadmike]

It's frustrating when some jackass says, "Well, I don't know anything about the subject, but..."

Fine. So let those of us who do write the article, and stick to checking our methodology.

I've had to make at least one correction (even if it's only spelling) on every Wiki page I've ever hit. I see vandalism daily. But the obsessives aren't dealing with that. They're too busy telling us why something with a million interested readers isn't "notable."

[msmercenary]

By the way, if anybody else wants to try where I failed, there is another factual error in the same line on that page.

The top of Snoqualmie Pass is at milepost 53, which is 42 miles east of Bellevue - not 60.

[unspeakablevorn]

Milepost 60 or 60 miles?

Vorn

[msmercenary]

Bellevue is about MP 11. The top of the pass is at MP 52.5. The claim that the pass is "Sixty miles east of Bellevue" is therefore off by nearly 20 mi.

[sff_corgi]

I have accepted your challenge and submitted revisions. Let's see what happens.