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Comment by kens | Hacker News Reader

Am I the only person tired of seeing so many Wikipedia articles on Hacker News? (Currently there are two in the top 10 and there have been a bunch of others recently.)

Perhaps HN should apply a mild penalty to the wikipedia.org domain, the same as it does to many other sites such as stackexchange.com and theguardian.com.

(And yes I acknowledge the What to Submit guideline (HN:WTS) "Anything that good hackers would find interesting".)

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What would be a better source for this information?

I am more likely to read a Wikipedia article than I am to read either marketing material or the same info incompletely rehashed into a more subjective blog post.

I often find myself visiting Wikipedia for the real story behind HN links.

The thing plain wikipedia links lack is context. eg why is this relevant now, what is the angle here, why should I be interested in this etc

I see it as "here's an interesting thing". I like it, most articles make for interesting reading.

Well, for one thing it's going into production this year (i.e. it's a real thing already). And ronaldx is right, Wikipedia material is worth more than the car's official webpage.

Am I the only person tired of seeing complaints as the first comment on every post ? Especially the ones with the form "<vaguely nice comment> BUT <trashing the whole thing>".

Certainly a nicer format that simply trashing the whole thing right out.

It's lazy and I lost the "flag articles" bit hammering them. :) Just ignore them and scroll past.

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