Wikipedia Sucks!

This one was posted on the Tube Collector Association's mailing list today. Authored by TCA member Jim Cross, a tube dealer and prominent collector thereof:

I have to smile. In the only time I have edited a Wikipedia page, I added the P13 phosphor info as well as 9 other numbered phosphors missing from that table just last night after going to that page and seeing a bunch of phosphor numbers were missing. Data I added comes from JEDEC registration of the phosphors. I added P6, P13, P16, P17, P18, P21, P23, P25, P27, and P35

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphor
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =288612989

TCA members tend to avoid WP. In past discussions many members have said they consider WP's coverage of vacuum tubes and early electronics to be "crap" and riddled with errors. They already ran an article in their house magazine about the Allen Du Mont articles being full of errors--most still exist today. Very few edits to tube-associated articles were made by actual "experts in the field", so the content has some real problems. I gather this article's inadequate table eventually got to Cross.

He's the kind of person they SHOULD have making content. Instead, people like Cross give up in disgust when their valid additions are removed by idiots, or they find themselves being harassed by certain administrators looking for someone to shit on.

Yes, normal people with expertise won't touch Wikipedia.

Malleus seems to have mostly left the project. He was an asshole but his content was good.

Flip Flopped wrote:Malleus seems to have mostly left the project. He was an asshole but his content was good.

He has cut back but he's still editing occasionally. That arbitration in 2015 left a mark. Ten years ago he argued on talkpages and noticeboards regularly; now he's keeping his mouth shut. You can be damned sure he's a Wikipedia addict--he's a natural loudmouth but is willing to zip it up in return for "being tolerated".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... ion_report