[WikiEN-l] Ian McKellen's article - a challenge

Sat Apr 22 19:03:46 UTC 2006

On Apr 22, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Will (Zsinj) Bumgarner wrote:

> Pete Bartlett wrote:
>
>> Fair use quote follows:
>>
>> "Empire: I looked you up on Wikipedia...
>> McKellan: I don't understand Wikipedia. I've looked myself up on  
>> it and it's thoroughly objectionable. It's just taken, as the  
>> basis of my career, an article that was written about five years  
>> ago, and why someone doesn't correct it.. is that how it's done?
>> Empire: Pretty much. If you want to change something, you can go  
>> on and correct it yourself.
>> McKellan: Oh... I suppose if you wanted to know someone's dates,  
>> or where they were born, it would be quite useful."
>
> What I don't understand is when people look themselves up and see
> erroneous information, they don't just go and fix it. It's as if they
> have something to prove by saying "Wikipedia sucks" instead of
> contributing to the effort and making Wikipedia better.

It is not your responsibility to avoid having shitty things said  
about you on a major website.

-Phil