Comments on: From the Department of Useless Wikipedia Entries

By: Debra

Debra — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:54:26 +0000

I find that to be quite discriminating actually. It’s like all the other people whose names is not on there, does not exist! That is outrageous! Who even came up with such a topic on Wikipedia?

By: Lentils-N-Rice

Lentils-N-Rice — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:40:38 +0000

Uhh the founder of CHIPPENDALES, is an Indian? What would our aunties say?

By: boston_mahesh

boston_mahesh — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:43:35 +0000

30 Â· sbarrkum on April 20, 2009 11:47 PM Â· Direct link I see in the Indian List that at least one is of Ceylonese/Sri Lankan origin (part 1/4 I guess). Rama P. Coomaraswamy, a cardiac surgeon. From the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_P._Coomaraswamy Rev. Dr. Rama Poonambalam Coomaraswamy, M.D., (1929 – 2006), was a cardiac surgeon, then a psychiatrist and later a Traditionalist Catholic priest and exorcist, besides being a prolific writer on Traditionalist Catholicism and Perennialist topics. Rama Coomaraswamy, of mixed Tamil, English and Jewish ancestry, was the son of the famous Indologist Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, and of his fourth wife Luisa Runstein, an Argentine-born woman of Jewish descent. He is the grandson of the Tamil-Ceylonese lawyer and social pioneer Sir Muthu Coomaraswamy and his English wife Elizabeth Beeby. As such, Rama Coomaraswamy hailed from notable Tamil and English families.

I have actually visited Dr. Coomaraswamy back in ’04 in Wilton or Milton, Connecticut.! I met his son, Frank, who is 1/8 Tamil. Frank is a principal or a teacher at a school down there. Frank is married and has at least 2 kids, who are 1/16 Tamil. They were all very nice and gracious, and I’ll never forget how happy and old-world Frank’s blonde-hair daughter was to see us. It blew my mind that these kids – who are 1/16 Tamil – still have their old surname, and they carry it with a lot of pride. They are keenly aware that their great grandfather was the first Desi knight.

By: pj

pj — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:30:50 +0000

Is this for real ?

A call to vandalise wikipedia from SepiaMutiny ?

This is disgraceful.

By: roger23

roger23 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:41:31 +0000

"There are individual articles in Wiki that are good and individual articles that are awful. At the end of the day it's a good way to get a quick primer on something but something you should always take with a huge grain of salt."

I would wager its a better source than any print encyclopedia, for three reasons. First, its always.. literally always.. up to date. Second the articles are generally, particularly the highly popular ones, very well balanced in the sense that every interested POV is represented. Third, you if you miss something in a print encyclopedia you can't simply 'click' on what you don't know.. which I think is Wikipedia's biggest benefit. Its possible to spend hours just clicking away if you're so inclined. I've yet to meet someone who would happily read Britannica for hours on end.

Most importantly, you should take ANY source you read with a grain of salt. To suggest that Wikipedia articles, especially, need to be taken in such a way betrays that one might not do the same for say his high school history book...

By: sbarrkum

sbarrkum — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:47:30 +0000

I see in the Indian List that at least one is of Ceylonese/Sri Lankan origin (part 1/4 I guess). Rama P. Coomaraswamy, a cardiac surgeon.

From the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_P._Coomaraswamy

Rev. Dr. Rama Poonambalam Coomaraswamy, M.D., (1929 – 2006), was a cardiac surgeon, then a psychiatrist and later a Traditionalist Catholic priest and exorcist, besides being a prolific writer on Traditionalist Catholicism and Perennialist topics.

Rama Coomaraswamy, of mixed Tamil, English and Jewish ancestry, was the son of the famous Indologist Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, and of his fourth wife Luisa Runstein, an Argentine-born woman of Jewish descent. He is the grandson of the Tamil-Ceylonese lawyer and social pioneer Sir Muthu Coomaraswamy and his English wife Elizabeth Beeby. As such, Rama Coomaraswamy hailed from notable Tamil and English families.

By: Anil

Anil — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:02:50 +0000

This is total bullshit, not just because I'm on the list, but because there's no list of Scripps Spelling Bee losers! I could totally dominate that list.

By: protocol

protocol — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:20:52 +0000

Amartya Sen is an indian citizen (as are a lot of people in that list)

By: Ash

Ash — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:55:45 +0000

P.S. The articles in wikipedia pertaining to India were the worst before someone actually got around to cleaning them up. They almost looked like they were written by the Nazis.

By: Ash

Ash — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:52:24 +0000

I already made my own page back when wikipedia wasn’t as popular and even then it didn’t last long(I actually think it might not have made it past screening it all). I even had citations backing up everything I said.