Comments on: Dave Albo vs. Wikipedia.

By: brian

brian — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:44:29 +0000

I love that the edits are still going on and that Albo Must Go was added today – follow up post with a screenshot or two might be necessary if this continues.

By: Eric Pugh

Eric Pugh — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:06:19 +0000

Waldo, I disagree on you not being up to snuff for being on wikipedia. My latest experiment on www.hightechcville.com has been to pull in wikipedia data. It's not released to the main site yet, but one of the folks on HTC, Angela Orebaugh, has a ton of great info. I wish more folks were on wikipedia, as that helps flesh out their picture.

By: MB

MB — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:33:10 +0000

They saw you rollin' . . .

By: Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:22:53 +0000

Um. Whatever. But here in in the normal world, we have a definition of “bias” that makes it plausible to be non-biased, so let’s stick within the confines of reality here.

By: Blair

Blair — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:41:23 +0000

Looks like one of the versions was a copy of davealbo.com. “South County Secondary School. SCSS was the first school in Virginia built and financed by a private company.” I don’t believe this is the first private school in Virginia. Remember, every entry on Wiki and every encyclopedia is “biased information.” The bias is what you think is important enough to be in the entry. You leave out or include info according to your bias.

I’ve followed the Wikipedia for neighborhoods controversy in Cville Weekly. The bias of experts is to create the appearance you’re more knowledgeable than anybody else. The bias of realtors is to sell more. Wikipedia is based on the idea that self-proclaimed experts provide the most biased and least reliable info.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:32:59 +0000

It’s pretty funny that he calls it “his” entry. It’s about him but Wiki owns it not Mr. Albo. I also didn’t know that removing biased information, which has no place on wiki, is now considered “vandalism”.

By: Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:15:54 +0000

You’re right, it didn’t make any sense on its own (let alone as a Wikipedia entry). Wikipedia should be a place for impartial, factual, verifiable information.

By: Harry Landers

Harry Landers — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:52:53 +0000

I suppose that if somebody else said that he “passed some of Virginia’s most important legislation in the past 15 years” and called him an “accomplished trial attorney”, it might be a compliment. But to say that about himself? That’s just embarrassing.

And, what’s with the last sentence in the entry? “By combining Delegate Albo’s financing plan and the South County parents’ land swap idea, we were able to build the school.” Who’s the “we”?