I am posting this thread because of some issue I have been having for the past week now. While I was on Wikipedia I looked up a page on one of the boats I was a crewman on. The YTB 803. 90% of the information on the page was flat out wrong. They said the boat spent it's entire career in San Francisco. Which is false because it spent it's entire service life with the US Navy at Navsta Roosevelt Roads, Ceiba Puerto Rico. So I got a Wikipedia account and corrected the record. A few days later some fuck head changed it back. So I edited it again. Then they changed it back. So I posted an objection to their corrections pointing out I was an actual crewman on that boat and know the whole history of that boat. I even posted a picture of the boat I took myself as proof. I did some further research and found that on the page of the company that currently own the 803 they incorrectly stated where they got the 803 and it's whole history. This was also parroted by every other site that mentioned my old boat. A lie has spread all over the internet and no one is doing a basic fact check of contacting 4th Fleet to get the real information.
I also did some more looking at other wikipedia articles on other subjects and are seeing this pattern elsewhere. Something needs to be done. We can't have a site spread lies like they are the truth. To be honest one of the reasons I am so passionate about this issue is the fact a good friend of mine died on the 803. One of my mentors EN1 Stevens died during a transit of the 803 from the Charleston Naval Shipyard to Roosevelt Roads. Them saying the 803 was never stationed at Roosevelt Roads is spitting at the memory of a great man. And I won't stand for it. Have any of you found any falsehoods yourself on Wikipedia?
I also did some more looking at other wikipedia articles on other subjects and are seeing this pattern elsewhere. Something needs to be done. We can't have a site spread lies like they are the truth. To be honest one of the reasons I am so passionate about this issue is the fact a good friend of mine died on the 803. One of my mentors EN1 Stevens died during a transit of the 803 from the Charleston Naval Shipyard to Roosevelt Roads. Them saying the 803 was never stationed at Roosevelt Roads is spitting at the memory of a great man. And I won't stand for it. Have any of you found any falsehoods yourself on Wikipedia?