Jack B108

Attention all users: Jul 2021, serious Wikipedia criticism from its cofounder, Sanger; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0P4Cf0UCwU.

And at https://encyclosphere.org/intro,

We are fed up. After ten years of domination by big social media—which might finally be in decline—we are tired of giant Silicon Valley corporations using us contemptuously. We still remember an internet in which we charted our own destiny. Big Tech dominates us in social media, but Wikipedia has a similar problem. If you want to participate in the world’s largest encyclopedia, you must collaborate with a shadowy group of anonymous amateurs and paid shills on exactly one article per topic. If you are new, you will be treated shabbily. If you refuse to play their strange game, you will be summarily dismissed. Like the social media giants, Wikipedia has become an arrogant and controlling oligarchy. Like Facebook, Wikipedia is also controlling its readers. It feeds them biased articles, exactly one per topic, and does not let readers give effective, independent feedback on articles, nor does it allow readers to rate articles. You must become a participant merely to give feedback. You thereby subject yourself to the tender mercies of this shadowy group. In this way, Wikipedia has centralized epistemic authority in the hands of an anonymous mob. This is worse than Facebook. At least with Facebook, Congress can call Mark Zuckerberg to testify. There isn’t anyone who is responsible for Wikipedia’s content. The situation is, in some ways, more dire than Facebook because you cannot effectively talk back to Wikipedia. Who can you talk to? Everyone and no one.

Feb 2022, my review of poor presentation and bias on Wikipedia entry John A. McDougall, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A14074CBA6Q&t=10s.

Mar 2022, my review of poor presentation and bias on Wikipedia entry Deepak Chopra, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L_lJ6RVuwQ&t=416s

I work as a technical editor on (environmental compliance and reporting U.S. gov't docs and peer-reviewed chemical and physics journal articles). I believe in well-edited encyclopedias and balanced articles. -Jack B., Mesa County, Colorado, USA Send me an e-mail

B.A., cum laude, Environmental Science, Capital University

Courses taught: HS physics, chemistry, environmental science, advanced HS environmental science, algebra II, geometry

Selected edits: Grand Junction, CO (added content); Colorado National Monument; Grand Mesa (of CO); Alum Creek; Lance Armstrong (rewrote Cancer section); Coors Classic; Alexi Grewal (cyclist); Ernest Rutherford; Albert Einstein; environmental science; hemoglobin; tetraethyl lead; Swami Kriyananda (sigh)

General editing interests: science history; religion and spirituality; pro cycling; chemistry; medical field; geography (if I have actually been there)

Special accomplishments: fixing a running [loaded] cabover auto transport truck on the side of I-70 in Glenwood Canyon (W. CO, USA). I had to reconnect a wire to the Cummins diesel fuel pump in the December 31 dark, for which I had no training. Mission accomplished! 80,000 lbs. of steel and rubber moving again by grace of the repair of a small electrical connection.

Unusual fact about me: I have lived in four different U.S. state capitals: those of Utah, Colorado, Ohio, and California. Right now, I live at about 39 deg N, 108 deg W Jack B108 (talk) 05:19, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

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