User:Xientist

I took a tour of Wikipedia using the "Random Articles" function and didn't find much to lend confidence in the project. I've heard it is the users' job to fix things that are wrong or ambiguous, but recognizing ambiguity and resolving it are two different jobs. The former is usually an editorial function, wherase staff writers more often conduct research and craft prose. My interest here was nominally editorial, primarily from the perspective of representing a reader's interest. Readers are interested in accurate, complete information. I didn't find much of that here. I left notes along the way indicating the errors and omissions I identified, in case anyone wants to fix them. Most of the articles where I didn't find errors, ommissions and muddled explanations were apparently place-related articles, most of which seem to have been forked here from some other source, or occassionaly written as original research by people familiar with those places. Xientist 01:07, 7 May 2006 (UTC)