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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Excellent.. thanks for sharing!
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Valued Member
United States
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Valued Member
United States
250 Posts |
Another reason I love this forum. Yet another useful bookmark.
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Pillar of the Community
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Moderator
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing!  |
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Forum Dad
United States
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Honestly, I think a publicly edited anythingFACTS site is not such a good idea. I thought about it for here years ago, actually downloaded the Wiki software, then decided against it.
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Moderator
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I think it'd work. There never are any differences of opinions on this forum reguardin grading, cleaning, doubling, etc. Nothing like editing someones biased opinions with some of my own  |
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Valued Member
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Great! Very good to know and hear about! Wikis are popping up everywhere, it's no wonder a project like coinage would have one!
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Forum Dad
United States
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I just don't understand how you can trust a FACTS site that anyone and their brother can edit. It seems especially nonsensical when they already have an extensive CoinFacts site. Why in the world would you want to do it again and let anyone, even people that think their Chinese fake collection that some fool at a flea market sold them for $20, will let them retire early, edit it any time they want? Seems very silly to me. I got an email today with a photo of a 1795 flowing hair dollar, it said that is what a real one looks like and the PCGS one in the gallery was a fake. I was told that I was welcome to use the photo they supplied as a guideline for our members to determine authenticity. This person will be free to edit on this new site, even though their intentions may be perfectly good. |
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm with Bobby. I think the intentions are good, but the implementation is not.
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Pillar of the Community
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I just don't understand how you can trust a FACTS site that anyone and their brother can edit.  Not a real good idea, in my opinion. Plus, most educational institutions won't allow a "Wiki" reference for term papers and such. |
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Valued Member
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I do understand people mistrusting wikis, but that's why some (many?) entries are protected from editing by new/inexperienced users.
For the coin wiki, you could have a "confirmed facts" section (can't be edited); a "facts for confirmation" section (can be added to etc); and a set of references and notations (like wikipedia) that people can use for term papers etc, because they are where the info came from in the first place.
Just my opinion, but I really enjoy wikipedia because there's so much information on it, and it directs you to other sites/books/etc that you can use for papers.
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Forum Dad
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Well, I am a very active editor on Wikipedia and I can tell you for a fact that very few articles are protected. Even ones that get vandalized or spammed multiple times per day.
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Moderator
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Plus, most educational institutions won't allow a "Wiki" reference for term papers and such. Quote:
Well, I am a very active editor on Wikipedia and I can tell you for a fact that very few articles are protected. Even ones that get vandalized or spammed multiple times per day. For me, Wikipedia is a jump point. Almost all of the articles have references, so I follow those links and make a decision on authenticity from there. No references, no credit.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Since the Wiki site is owned by PCGS, who also own Coinfacts, I suspect they are looking for some free content, stories and ideas that once checked they can incorporate into Coinfacts. Or possibly they intend to eventually sell Coinfacts back to Ron Guth and ease him out, then have this Wiki and a "competing" site and get their content free.
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Posted 12/04/2008 7:12 pm
