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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
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I don't believe in Wikipedia at all.
I actually tried to get the idiots that wrote the page for the "US Army Special Forces" to make changes, not one replied. They even have Professionalsoldiers.com as a reference for the webpage. Some of the other Special Forces pages have been written by kids playing "Spec Ops" games and airsofters. They can keep their website and cater to those children that read it.
Anyone can write for Wikipedia if they have internet access.
I believe your page is fine, until some child decides to re-write what you have done.
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Some "child" did at various times. A few months after I rewrote the article, I reviewed it and found that some shithead had altered the awards page, as well as several other pages, to insert some buddy of his as a Delta Force badass with two DSCs in Iraq. I fixed those changes and replaced the entire bio of his buddy on that person's page with a note that the previous bio was a lie.
Other changes are not as bad, but annoying. People mistakenly put erroneous information found on other pages. Some Army Air Force and USAF general's Wikipedia entry mistakenly said he had the DSC instead of the DFC. SO someone added him to the DSC list of notable recipients. After confirming from my database of recipients that it was an error, I fixed both pages.
I am a big critic of Wikipedia for the reasons you cite, and don't waste my time with any "controversial" topics like politics or current events. But I will both criticize and make constructive changes where I can.
I haven't done a lot on Wikipedia. Mainly the DSC entry, the Army DSM entry, some fixes of the Navy Cross page, etc. I revised the Pour le Merite page recently, which was also full of erroneous information, but not so much vandalism. I wrote Robert T. Frederick's bio, though it appears others have added since then. I also fixed some errors on the "Mean Girls" page.