Guess the important stuff for this venue is "Why should my contributions be regarded as credible?" Funny I should ask... Anyway, the main item is that I read a lot, over 50 books a year since childhood. (Well, actually more than that back then.) These days many of the books are Japanese, however, which increases the difficulty points. I have two degrees, with completed majors in sociology, history, philosophy, and computer science. The major I most wish I had completed was mathematics, but that's a different not-so-funny story. Have lived in Japan for many years, and regard myself as a permanent resident.
As regards Wikipedia, I feel like commenting on the fundamental problem I perceive with the current implementation. Altruism is a relatively weak motivation for contributing. Sure, I will probably take the time to correct an obvious mistake if I happen to read it, and I'm glad to be of service. However, what if that mistake is deliberate? Someone who has an ulterior motive may have needed to get some credibility for that error, at least for a bit. Wikipedia built up quite a bit of credibility, but now that credibility has become something the scammers and spammers seek to exploit for their greedy profit.
Back again, eh? The previous comments were dated about 5 years ago, so it obviously this page didn't make much of an impression on me at the time, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's another 5 years until my next visit... The main thing I noticed this time was that another tab said my history consists of only THREE edits. Excuse me, but that's ridiculously low. Okay, my edits are usually trivial grammatical changes, but there were far more than three of them. Mostly makes my skeptical of the accuracy of Wikipedia. Yes, minor data, but I KNOW the reality and this is clearly inaccurate. What else is wrong? Of course I'm basically lazy and I'll continue using Wikipedia for its convenience, but with a bigger grain of salt... Shanen (talk) 00:13, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Oh yeah, I see that I forgot to say why I stopped by. I wanted to find a corresponding Japanese page for some new information, and the Japanese version hadn't been created yet. Therefore I started digging around in the Wikipedia system trying to see if there was some way to encourage its creation, and at some point I wound up over here. Also not encouraging... Shanen (talk) 00:16, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia is run by censorious and narrow-minded morons and Wikipedia should not be trusted as far as you can throw a bus. Shanen (talk) 05:51, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
The latest evidence:
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