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C_J_M
January 30th, 2008, 05:26 PM
During the past year, I have learned somethings about editing on Wikipedia and I have my own login username on that web encyclopedia. I have contributed to some pages titled "Dispensationalism" and others because I study eschatology in my spare time. I will warn you, however, that a number of users may/will disagree with your edits.

For example, I put some excellent material into the "Antichrist" reference page and someone deleted the whole thing. Something about a copyright, etc. The rules for Wikipedia can be very arcane and contrary to common sense. Nevertheless, I feel it's an excellent way to witness Christ, and I use my own userpage to do that very thing. It works 24/7. Only one person has dared to delete stuff on my user page and that was an unknown user! Not someone registered, as on this website.

There is also another web encyclopedia called "Conservapedia". You do web-searches on these. Wikipedia's website home page is:

http://www.en.wikipedia.org

and you can do searches from within that web encyclopedia on almost anything, etc. Try "Antichrist", "Dispensationalism", and some other christian topics of interest.

Tio-Peregrino
February 4th, 2008, 12:48 PM
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing! I had wondered why some things I had read there showed "no citations," or "this has been deemed questionable, and is without fact," etc. Some of those pages had to do with Israel, and of course there are a number of people who are against Israel out there.

lyngraphics
February 4th, 2008, 12:52 PM
I LOVE Wikipedia! Good thinking!:hat

FrankBeMe
February 5th, 2008, 02:49 PM
I've told students I've had over the last few years to not use Wikapedia as their primary source. Why? Because anyone can contribute to any article. It's ok to get the very basic information, but after that don't use it.

So, make absolutely sure, before you add anything to an article, that what is already there is accurate.