User:Erthygy

I have figured out how to render geo-referenced satellite images (Sentinel-2, Landsat, ASTER, MODIS, Suomi NPP). Suggest a Wikipedia page, location, date and I'll see what I can do. Geoscience, geology, geomorphology, meteorology, climatology.

I prefer information attributed to the original source. In my experience, news aggregators do not carefully report technical information. Unattributed information, second-hand sources and lures to advertising and propaganda are not good sources of information.

Commercial news sources make money when viewers see advertisements and click on links to more advertising. News is as little as bait to pages layered with paid advertising. They work the search engines and social media to increase page views, and so their income. Search engines are structured to this is how they make their money. Making money is the first priority, quality of news information is secondary. Many "news aggregators" have no journalists and no information quality control. Spreading political propaganda is another purpose of commercial news aggregators.

Wikipedia can and is be a place where objective information is accumulated, without monetary purpose, for those of us that enjoy pure, unadulterated knowledge.

Erthygy (talk) 08:17, 6 February 2018 (UTC)