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GFA rubbishes Kluivert appointment as Stars' coach report

Sports News of Sunday, 28 September 2014

Source: GHANAsoccernet.com

The Ghana FA has strongly rubbished a report on Wikipedia that Dutch legend Patrick Kluivert has been appointed as the new coach of the Black Stars, slamming the report as fake.

A posting on Wikipedia claimed on Saturday that the Holland assistant coach has been appointed to lead the Black Stars following the sacking of Kwesi Appiah.

According to the internet research website, the Dutch national was named on Saturday with Maxwell Konadu as his assistant.

However, the GFA has poured cold water on the report suggesting that this is one of the several hoax postings made on the open posting websites on the internet.

Treat this report with the contempt it deserves. This is a completely fake report and no one should take it seriously, Ghana FA spokesman Ibrahim Sannie Daara told GHANAsoccernet.com

The GFA doesnt appoint coaches via Wikipedia. This website is open where anyone can go and post anything on it. This is one of the many many fake things posted on Wikipedia.

Completely ignore this thing. When the GFA appoints a coach, we will announce it on our website and various media channels we operate.

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Why Is Wikipedia Removing References to Neil deGrasse Tyson Misquoting George W. Bush?

September 25, 2014|5:09 pm

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist and science communicator. He also hosts the podcast StarTalk radio show.

Wikipedia editors have removed references to evidence that famous scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson uses fake quotes, including one that he attributed to former President George W. Bush, in his speeches.

The controversy began with an article by The Federalist's Sean Davispointing out that Tyson, host of Fox's "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" and director of the Hayden Planetarium, confused the mean, or average, of a set of numbers with the median, or midpoint, of a set of numbers in one of his presentations. Tyson may have also used fabricated quotes for unnamed members of Congress and journalists. (Davis could not find the quotes on LexisNexis.)

Tyson responded to the criticism in the comment section by saying Davis misunderstood the context of the speech because he was not there for the whole speech.

"When I am invited to give a talk, especially to an audience that is not the general public, but to a specific gathering of people within a trade, I tune the contents for that audience, for that time, and for that place. So tone and flavor and context and intent are all key elements to any message I convey all missing to anyone who was not present at the time," he wrote.

(A spokeswoman for the Hayden Planetarium confirmed in a response to The Daily Beastthat the comment was written by Tyson.)

Davis responded to Tyson in a Sept. 15 articlewhere he found additional examples of Tyson using the same apparently fabricated quotes. He also found that Tyson changes the facts of a story he often tells about being called to serve on a jury.

On Sept. 16, Davis published another article about Tyson, this time misquoting Bush: according to Tyson, Bush sowed religious division after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by claiming that Christianity's God is the only true God.

In "attempting to distinguish we from they," Tyson said, Bush said in a speech within a week after the attack that, "our God is the God who named the stars."

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Wikipedia – Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia

Wikipedia works using a complex network of buckets, cups, donuts, pointy hats, boxes and mysterious spherical objects.

Lies, damned lies, and Wikipedia articles.

Isn't it annoying how Wikipedia always copies your homework

Wikipedia isn't a good source. Didn't you know it was a fuckin' parody?

Mission Accomplished.

Wikipedia ("the 'free' encyclopedia") is a website that parodies Uncyclopedia. It was founded in 2001, when it began its noble goal of spreading the world's misinformation in the most inconspicuous way possible. For this reason, academic experts strongly urge students not to cite Wikipedia.[1] Originally written exclusively in Klingon, the project currently spans all the known languages of history.[2] The English version has over twelve million pages, most of them capitalization redirects.

Only one vehicle for article humor is employed at Wikipedia: actual information[citation needed]. However, much of the behind-the-scenes aspects of Uncyclopedia are also parodied, from the abundance of maintenance templates to the system for rating articles. Like Uncyclopedia, Wikipedia has guidelines regarding what is and is not acceptable content, and these guidelines have become exceedingly long and complex as a parody of Uncyclopedia's comparatively simple rules. The site has gained media attention due to its articles on places, people, and painfully obscure pop culture.

Wikipedia's name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for stealing content from other websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning 'thief') and pedia meaning 'children'; literally stealing content for perverting children's brains.[3] Its logo is a spherical magical puzzle globe, named Merlin after the loyal wizard of King Arthur's court, which serves as a spoof of Uncyclopedia's hollow potato logo.

The name "nupedia" clearly shows a connection with Jimbo's earlier project bomis.com.

Wikipedia traces its origins to 2001, when a pair of bored college students, Jimbo Wales and Larry Sanger, decided that the same principles that made things like the graffiti on bathroom stalls great could also be applied to internet encyclopedias.[4] Armed with a pretentious sense of self-righteousness and a can-do attitude, the two bright-eyed youngsters created their website, named "nupedia.com". Naturally, this venture was a spectacular failure. Instead of learning from their mistake, though, Wales and Sanger decided to go the AIG route, and rename their idea while making no real changes to it.

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