Critique of Wikipedia – The silence is broken (for naught)

This has not happened in over a year.  Before Monday’s edit of the Wikipedia article Credit score (United States), 38 days had passed with no edits.  The last time that happened was November, 2009, when the span was 40 days.

Unfortunately, the new edits were of no substance.

The message board masquerading as an encyclopedia still misinforms anybody reading it. Its U.S. Credit score article falsely states that the so-called credit utilization ratio accounts for 30 percent of the FICO score, while the FICO company itself illustrates that that is not true.  The misinformation is now in its 7th year.  Ironically, the editor changed punctuation in that portion of the article, but failed to notice, indeed, the error of fact he was editing.  On the other hand, however, he makes no claims to credit score expertise in his profile: “Anime, manga, and science fiction fan; copy editor and wikifier—scourge of incorrect dashes and capitalization. ^_^.”

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Even the Federal Reserve appears to have used wiki-nonsense in federal testimony.  If that is true, then Wikipedia is the Fed’s source, while the Fed is Wikipedia’s source.  So, who’s in charge, here?

The Wikipedian has been wiki-decorated with the WikiMedal for Janitorial Services, and his wikipage is festooned with the official wikimedallion.

At least they don’t take themselves too seriously.

Nobody should.