Comments on: Wikipedia: An example of democracy and human nature http://www.quis.com/2009/09/04/wikipedia-an-example-of-democracy-and-human-nature Dan Katz's thoughts on marketing, customer service, woodworking, his baby boy and other musings. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:03:55 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Martin - 1 SEO Company http://www.quis.com/2009/09/04/wikipedia-an-example-of-democracy-and-human-nature/comment-page-1#comment-4118 Martin - 1 SEO Company Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:56:34 +0000 http://www.quis.com/?p=124#comment-4118 I've found that certain pages of Wikipedia tend to be highly controlled, but most of the time I edit less popular pages (e.g. pages about small towns) and find that they tend to be accepted and the changes remain. I tried editing the Sugar page a couple of times and those edits were removed almost as soon as I'd pressed 'Save'. I was pointing out some of the health problems with Sugar and modifying the section on Sugar and cancer and had assumed some Sugar sales company had a vested interest in that edit not appearing! If you do edit Wikipedia, I think it helps if: 1. You're a registered user, rather than an anonymous one. 2. You add a reference which supports what you're saying. 3. You write clearly and check spelling (for instance, your 'pints of fact' gave me a smile, I've not come across that particular term before). 4. You are giving a neutral research based perspective, rather than promoting or attacking something. Hope that helps! Thanks for the blog. Martin I’ve found that certain pages of Wikipedia tend to be highly controlled, but most of the time I edit less popular pages (e.g. pages about small towns) and find that they tend to be accepted and the changes remain.

I tried editing the Sugar page a couple of times and those edits were removed almost as soon as I’d pressed ‘Save’. I was pointing out some of the health problems with Sugar and modifying the section on Sugar and cancer and had assumed some Sugar sales company had a vested interest in that edit not appearing!

If you do edit Wikipedia, I think it helps if:

1. You’re a registered user, rather than an anonymous one.
2. You add a reference which supports what you’re saying.
3. You write clearly and check spelling (for instance, your ‘pints of fact’ gave me a smile, I’ve not come across that particular term before).
4. You are giving a neutral research based perspective, rather than promoting or attacking something.

Hope that helps! Thanks for the blog.

Martin

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