Wikipedia

tintinr35

ha look what i found, i mean really....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCDSU

Blowfish

Someone in the SU has way too much time on their hands...;)

Scraggs

as does tintinr

Jonny Arson

''The Union has also taken significant stances on issues of human rights that have hit the headlines in Ireland and around the world, particularly in becoming the first institution in the world to implement a boycott of Coca-Cola products on the basis of alleged human and trade union rights infringements in Colombia.''

Since it's on the second paragraph we can see yet again whats more important to the SU..... non-student issues!

Sangre

oops someone edited it

Mr.Nice Guy

To meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup.

To meet UCD students' standards, UCDSU may require a cleanup.

Blowfish

Most of it is actually from the UCD page down near the bottom.

Paul Tergat

Methinks SingingStranger may have been involved here!!!!????

tintinr35

Scraggs wrote:

as does tintinr

hey your on here and ten past twelve 2

tintinr35

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boards.ie


i also found this

Blowfish

Yeah, I had seen that one, but I had also found somewhere else on wikipedia that someone said it was pointless and should be deleted!

[edit] thats how it got there
[edit edit] moaning person
[edit edit edit]The april fools joke is also mentioned somewhere

Syth

tintinr35 wrote:

ha look what i found, i mean really....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCDSU

*cracks knuckes*

Let's get editing Wikipedians.

Blowfish

Syth wrote:

*cracks knuckes*

Let's get editing Wikipedians.

Can you report it for being biased?

Waltons

I'm sure. Wiki's meant to be written from a neutral point of view

tintinr35

Blowfish wrote:

Can you report it for being biased?

dunno but can w report it for being utter cock

Kwekubo

If you think it's biased then fix it yourself - click edit. That's how Wikipedia works.

AngelofFire

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

''The Union has also taken significant stances on issues of human rights that have hit the headlines in Ireland and around the world, particularly in becoming the first institution in the world to implement a boycott of Coca-Cola products on the basis of alleged human and trade union rights infringements in Colombia.''

Since it's on the second paragraph we can see yet again whats more important to the SU..... non-student issues!

Considering that the wikipedia software is open publishing, that could have been written by anyone not necessarily someone down the SU corridoor. Regardless of whether one agree with the coke boycott are not it is the stance that the SU have taken. People who read that page are entitled to know about it aswell. If one doesn`t agree with the boycott challenge it using the structures that are available. removing it from wikipedia is quite dogmatic and nothing short of censorship. (by the way im not accussing you of removing it-hope you dont take any offence.)

The_Minister

I think its more the fact that such a small issue (not even endorsed by half the membership) made the second paragraph. The trap is more important.

panda100

Have to laugh at this paragraph in the boards wilkpedia entry:

'There are regular Boards Beers, where regulars on boards.ie go to a pub and usually drink too much. '
I think orangeroooster would have a few unbiased things to say about that!!:D

I would never use wikipedia to look up something,it is a poor man/womens britannica. I have a fair idea who probably did write that ucdsu wikipedia entry though(humbert knows who im talking about:) )

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=111504A

humbert

Yea she's a snob:rolleyes::rolleyes: I love wikipedia, practical articles not useless abstract facts though I usually use it for physics stuff and it's easier to tell if its wrong, panda uses it for her medical exams, she says it going to save her when she fulfills her dream and becomes a gp so she can just go to wikipedia and it can diagnose her patients:eek:

Syth

Blowfish wrote:

Can you report it for being biased?

That's not how wikipedia works, as it is a wiki. Wikipedia is written by anyone and everyone. There is no central editorial control. The Wikipedia article on wikipedia and the Wikipedia article on wiki should help.

On wikipedia I'm known as Ebelular. I have edited the UCDSU article recently. I think the section on the coke ban is biased. Remember that Wikipedia has an offical Neutral Point of view policy. In a nutshell "All Wikipedia articles must be written from a neutral point of view, representing views fairly and without bias.".

humbert

I like it:)

panda100

much better second parahraph

humbert

Someone modified it again:( Might have a go at this:)

boneless

Firespinner wrote:

I think its more the fact that such a small issue (not even endorsed by half the membership) made the second paragraph. The trap is more important.

The issue is it was endorsed by the majority of those who bothered to vote!!

Don't vote... don't get the right to bitch!!

humbert

As firespinner mentioned before, far too low a turnout in required to make such a change, if nobody cares nothing should change.

boneless

humbert wrote:

As firespinner mentioned before, far too low a turnout in required to make such a change, if nobody cares nothing should change.

I agree... but that is the way the cookie is structured before the crumble starts... I have seen governments elected on a minority of a minority vote... should they be invalidated?

Sorry for draggin' this off thread!! It is May Day!!

arbeitsscheuer

boneless wrote:

The issue is it was endorsed by the majority of those who bothered to vote!!

Don't vote... don't get the right to bitch!!

Concur. 2 referenda, same result. Pretty conclusive - if you didn't vote either time, and then complain bout small turnout, well... More fool you, eh?:)

Mr.Nice Guy

panda100 wrote:

I would never use wikipedia to look up something,it is a poor man/womens britannica. I have a fair idea who probably did write that ucdsu wikipedia entry though(humbert knows who im talking about:) )

I disagree. I love it. I wouldn't have passed 1st year without it. It's a crammer's dream and I'll be relying on it this year to help me pass 2nd year. :cool:

Syth

panda100 wrote:

I would never use wikipedia to look up something,it is a poor man/womens britannica.

Wikipedia can only work in practice. In theory wikipedia can't work.

humbert

That doesn't make sense to me, it can work and fail in practice and in theory.

cruiserweight

panda100 wrote:

I would never use wikipedia to look up something,it is a poor man/womens britannica. I have a fair idea who probably did write that ucdsu wikipedia entry though(humbert knows who im talking about:) )

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=111504A

Well there is an article about Wikipedia in the Economist, dated 22nd April, where they cite a study that was published in Nature that found only 162 errors in Wikipedia articles and in fact 123 errors in Britannica's!

Although I am sure that they are aware that the article about UCDSU was bot a serious article

The_Minister

boneless wrote:

It is May Day!!

Does that mean we'll see you and your ilk beating up on Guards in town?? Grab me a baton if you can:D

singingstranger

Right, let it be said: I found the page in a bit of a grammatical quandry myself about two weeks ago; I edited it myself (p_larkin99 on the money again!...) to make it a little bit more grammatically sound, and stuck in the names of the officers... I shall now proceed, in a hugely pedantic manner, to make grammatical sense of what's happened since.

[edit] Might I add that whoever put the word c-u-n-t after the names of the two Presidents should grow the hell up.

boneless

Firespinner wrote:

Does that mean we'll see you and your ilk beating up on Guards in town?? Grab me a baton if you can:D

Are you inferring that I get involved in riots? What exactly is my 'ilk'? Just because I am a member of the Communist Party does not mean that I go around advocating violence.

















Btw, I can sell you an RUC riot stave....

panda100

was looking through wikipedia earlier (which is what you do when you're supposed to be studying but don't want to) and came across this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Place_Names_in_Other_Counties

It's a list of places around the world with Irish placenames. Its amazing how many limerick townships there are.My particular fave is the limerick nucelar power plant in pennsylvania.

And its also true...the Irish have landed on the moon as there is a Connemara Chaos Zone which is a region of chaotic terrain on Jupiter's moon Europa.

Hermione*

panda100 wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Place_Names_in_Other_Counties

It's a list of places around the world with Irish placenames. Its amazing how many limerick townships there are.My particular fave is the limerick nucelar power plant in pennsylvania.

Brilliant! Gotta love that

failsafe

panda100 wrote:

was looking through wikipedia earlier (which is what you do when you're supposed to be studying but don't want to) and came across this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Place_Names_in_Other_Counties

It's a list of places around the world with Irish placenames. Its amazing how many limerick townships there are.My particular fave is the limerick nucelar power plant in pennsylvania.

And its also true...the Irish have landed on the moon as there is a Connemara Chaos Zone which is a region of chaotic terrain on Jupiter's moon Europa.

It's gone :eek:

Blush_01

T.P. Dolan has a page. He is possibly the coolest guy ever. I loves him, I does!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Dolan