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This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations: Naomi Alderman (Tuesday 7 April 2009 15.32 BST). "Encarta's failure is no tragedy:Misplaced Pages has succeeded where Microsoft's Encarta failed, and seems to be a reversal of the 'tragedy of the commons'". Guardian News. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) Shawn Pogatchnick (May 11, 2009). "Irish student hoaxes world's media with fake quote". Associated Press.

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To-do: E · H · W · RUpdated 2022-01-07 Flesh lead out a bit - an extremely long article should have a large lead.Rewrite and shorten the lead - it's very long and not well-organized. Add more images

For critical examination of Misplaced Pages by Misplaced Pages itself, see Misplaced Pages:External peer review/Nature December 2005 (40 science articles) and Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2005-10-31/Guardian rates articles (7 articles of general interest).

Carolyn Doran and "hive mind"

Can someone think of a good addition to the "hive mind" section that uses Misplaced Pages's response to the Carolyn Doran article? Most of the stuff I add to articles seems to get reverted, so I'm not even going to try. --Fandyllic (talk) 11:06 AM PST 6 Jan 2008

POV or Vandalism in this article?

In the section on systemic bias is this passage:

Cohen cites the examples of the Misplaced Pages entries on Maoism (which he implies is unfairly characterised as simply the use of violence to impose political ends) and Socrates who (on Misplaced Pages at least) is "Plato's teacher who left behind not very many writings". This last, to readers of the Times Higher Education at least, is patent nonsense, but illustrates the shallow knowledge base of editors who then proceed to make sweeping judgements.

The emboldened portion of the above passage is outside of quotes, so it appears to be an assertion of the article rather than Cohen. If so, it should be fixed. Nightscream (talk) 05:02, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Why isn't there more emphasis on the role of Jimmy Wales?

There's much that's succinctly put and dead-on in this article, but one of the concerns I have with Misplaced Pages that seems to get minor attention here is not only the level of "authority" it may have acquired whether deserving or not, but that the ultimate arbiter is one person. And the clandestine nature of this - it's not going to be clear to the casual user. This is only briefly hinted at in the article.

I wonder how many of those who have collectively donated a substantial amount of money are truly aware of some of the unsavory aspects of Misplaced Pages culture?Henrydeutschendorf (talk) 10:40, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

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