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<blockquote data-quote="cmjust0" data-source="post: 466898" data-attributes="member: 2882"><p>I've found that a good way to get an idea of Wikipedia's accuracy is to take a look at the wiki page dedicated to something you personally know really, really well.. </p><p></p><p>I looked at the wiki page on "N-Series" Ford tractors one day and was just totally disappointed by all the errors and omissions.. It's been cleaned up a bit since then (not by me), but still isn't all that useful. For instance, it states that the biggest difference between the 9/2N and the 8N is that they went from a 3-spd to a 4-spd transmission, totally omitting the fact that the 8N also introduced "position control" to the three-point lift.. Before that, the lift was either all-up, or all-down -- wouldn't hold a spot in between.</p><p></p><p>Can you imagine if your tractor's lift was only all-up or all-down?? I can't.. That said, it seems to me that the introduction of position control -- <em>to the world</em> -- is probably more important than having gone from a 3-spd to a 4-spd...</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I think about that when I'm using wikipedia to learn about something something of which I have little or no knowledge.. In the back of my mind, I keep thinking that there's probably somebody out there who really knows a lot about what I'm looking up, who's probably just as aghast at the page I'm looking at as I was at the N-Series tractor page..</p><p></p><p>Really puts things in perspective..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cmjust0, post: 466898, member: 2882"] I've found that a good way to get an idea of Wikipedia's accuracy is to take a look at the wiki page dedicated to something you personally know really, really well.. I looked at the wiki page on "N-Series" Ford tractors one day and was just totally disappointed by all the errors and omissions.. It's been cleaned up a bit since then (not by me), but still isn't all that useful. For instance, it states that the biggest difference between the 9/2N and the 8N is that they went from a 3-spd to a 4-spd transmission, totally omitting the fact that the 8N also introduced "position control" to the three-point lift.. Before that, the lift was either all-up, or all-down -- wouldn't hold a spot in between. Can you imagine if your tractor's lift was only all-up or all-down?? I can't.. That said, it seems to me that the introduction of position control -- [i]to the world[/i] -- is probably more important than having gone from a 3-spd to a 4-spd... Anyway, I think about that when I'm using wikipedia to learn about something something of which I have little or no knowledge.. In the back of my mind, I keep thinking that there's probably somebody out there who really knows a lot about what I'm looking up, who's probably just as aghast at the page I'm looking at as I was at the N-Series tractor page.. Really puts things in perspective.. [/QUOTE]
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