Category: Wikipedia

• Change the World through Wikipedia

  It’s a quiet night in the middle of winter when you surf Wikipedia over to your favorite subject. Lately you’ve been obsessed. Reading the regular “blah, blah, blah” you’d expect in an encyclopedia, suddenly your eyes come across something you know is wrong, and you want to fix it.

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  July 26, 2013

  Adam Fletcher, Reflection, social change, Wikipedia

• In Favor of Adultism?

  Over at Wikipedia there’s a debate flaring over the article on adultism. Two trains of thought occur in this debate: one regarding the validity of the article and whether there are enough reliable sources in the article to make it a legitimate Wikipedia article; the second focused on the validity of adultism as a topic […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  September 4, 2011

  adultism, identity, perceptions, Wikipedia, youth

• Am I a Bad Wikipedia Editor?

  As I look deeper into the issue of anti-youth bias on Wikipedia, I find that I am frequently the target of these AfDs and TfDs. An editor called Herostratus called me out directly in a recent AfD, writing, It’s a Freechild special, and it’s an advocacy article (a particularly noxious form of advocacy to my mind…) Freechild is […]

  Adam F.C. Fletcher

  September 4, 2011

  adultism, Wikipedia, youth