Comments on: Canada, the smallest planet

By: WWWWolf

WWWWolf — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:35:32 +0000

The problem is not the fact that WP can be edited this way. It would be problem if there were people who actually believed, after reading this page version, that there’s a planet called Canada. I *really* hope nobody would automatically believe that.

I’m all for stuff that encourages careful reading and critical thinking.

By: Seamyst

Seamyst — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:56:37 +0000

I sent this post to my history professor, who happens to be Canadian. He told me not to tell anyone he was an alien.

By: brian

brian — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:29:02 +0000

Shoot… my last comment made me actually check the source, and Wiki uses nofollow!

By: brian

brian — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:06:17 +0000

I don’t know, but I’ve had one of my spammy, ad-filled websites as one of only fives sources on a popular Wikipedia article for a couple weeks now (hello, PageRank!) and no one seems to have noticed. And, no, I’m not going to tell you the site or the article! Although I suppose it does technically back up what I sourced, it’s just a dubious citation because, as I say, there are a lot of ads on the site and not very much (and not very helpful) content.

By: Kreativer Umgang mit Wikipedia - EffJot

Kreativer Umgang mit Wikipedia - EffJot — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:28:41 +0000

[...] Kommentar zu einem Artikel auf Bad Astronomy über die Mission der Raumsonde Messenger nach Kanada. [...]

By: Robert Carnegie

Robert Carnegie — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:14:28 +0000

Bumper sticker? “Canada… That’s no moon.”

(Complete the sentence as you please.)

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:54:04 +0000

Being a Canuck, I find this to be extremely amusing. Particularily the line “Canada was the messenger of the gods in Roman mythology.”