User talk:Reservoirhill
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThe sentence "Ninja's mother is half-Egyptian, half-Nigerian and while not a doctor herself trains doctors.[6]" is not stable and tends to decay to an untrue state.
The phrase "Ninja's mother is half-Egyptian, half-Nigerian and while not a doctor herself trains doctors.[6]" in the main article has three states.
- Two of the states are unstable and decay to the stable state.
- Two of the states are true and one of them is false.
- Both true states are unstable.
- Group editing dynamics tends to drive "What Wikipedia Says" to the untrue state.
The three states I have identified are:
- State 1: "Ninja's mother is half-Egyptian, half-Nigerian and while not a doctor herself trains doctors.[6]"
- State 2: "Ninja's mother is half-Egyptian, half-Nigerian and trains doctors.[6]"
- State 3: "Ninja's mother is half-Egyptian, half-Nigerian and and is a doctor.[6]"
State 1 tends to decay into State 2.
If left in State 2, State 2 then tends to decay to State 3.
The half life of each of these decays is about one month.
State 3 is stable i.e. once the wiki arrives in State 3 it will stay there unless someone restores it to State 1.
Best Regards,
Reservoirhill 15:40, 13 March 2008 (CDT)
Factual Accuracy
In my work on Wikipedia, I have found that being "factually accurate" is a necessary condition for the article being true, however it is not a sufficient condition to guarantee truth.
Reservoirhill 13:24, 15 March 2008 (CDT)