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Line 322: * Bates, Mary Ellen. "Just the Facts, Please". March 22, 2005. ''Search Engine Watch''. <small>[http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3491861]></small> :Article that talks about [[answers.com]] and Wikipedia. Refers to [[Wikipedia]] as a source of information. Sorin Adam Matei. "The Internet, the water spring and Adrian Paunescu". March 22, 2005. ''Evenimentul Zilei online''. <small>[http://www.expres.ro/english/?news_id=182190]</small> :Article originally in Romanian starts with a description of the ''[[New Yorker]]s' ''"On the Internet no-one knows you're a dog" cartoon, describes Wikipedia and mentions the accuracy problem. It then describes in detail a disputed article on Romanian poet Adrian Paunescu ([[:ro:Adrian Păunescu]]): :"A user for the first time interested in this issue creates a biography and includes in it what he knows: Adrian Paunescu is a famous Romanian poet. Another elderly user would probably add that Paunescu was a poet close to the communist power. A fan of Flacara literary circle might erase this information, saying that Adrian Paunescu was a patriotic poet who contributed to the relaunching of "Horea's spear" song. Later on, a critic added the fact that Adrian Paunescu was a political chameleon after 1989. This contribution can also be erased, let's say, by a member of the former ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD), who includes the poet, again, among the brilliant minds of the nation. This wikipedia page isn't a joke, it really exists (http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_P%C4%83unescu). From it, the nationalist poet, deeply involved in the games of the communist power in the 1980s, appears as a disinterested patriot. He is presented as being persecuted by the communist-era political police Securitate and as a "supporter of the naturist medicine in the era of the advancement of chemistry". The secret of this positive biography? The last contributor of the biography of the bard from Birca was...the son of the poet, Andrei Paunescu." ... :"The wiki system perfectly embodies the drama of searching for information through the Internet. Although plenty and necessary, information isn't better or worse than it was its last user/creator. Internet is like a water spring. It is a quick way to quench your thirst. The problem is that you never know who was the last one who drank from it: a man or a dog." :''Note: Since the publication of this article, the Adrian Paunescu article appears to have been extensively truncated and vandalised.'' ==See also==

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