Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "In 1938 Stalin Wanted a Bomber Capable of Hitting the British Navy at Sea" video.

  1. Sergei: The reason why the English version and the Russian version are different is because they were written by different people - each team ignorant of the other. In theory, anyone can work out the editing history of any Wikipedia article. Just click on the article's View History tab, and work your way through the listed versions, right back to the first version. you can see what changes, additions, and deletions were made. In practice this can take you days or weeks. I said in theory. Sometimes edit wars happen - different volunteer editors keep undoing each other's work until either one gets fed up and gives up, or the dominant editor's friends gang up and swamp it. Worse, groups of them decide someone is a Bad Person and just delete everything he/she did, without trace, including the entries in the history list. I used to be a Wikipedia editor (English Wikipedia), but some twit noticed that different editor names had logged in with the same IP address. So him and his friends decided I was pretending to be different people and banned me. Stupid berks did not understand that many, but not all, internet service providers allocate IP addresses dynamically - you get a different address each time you start your computer. Some give you a new IP weekly. So, everything I had done got deleted - without trace. They also banned access to all the IP addresses that they thought I had used - which for me is hilarious, as the probability that my ISP will allocate them to me is very low. I am permanently banned - just because a few idiots don't understand how the internet works. Researchers and authors should always click on the Talk tab of any Wikipedia article. In the talk page you can see all the debates and arguments that went on between editors, and often the reasons why things got changed/added/deleted. Never the less, Wikipedia IS a good place to start to research or learn any subject. Just don't rely on the article text - instead, look up the references given and interpret the references for yourself. If an article claims something without giving a reference, ignore it - it cannot be trusted and is likely to be wrong.
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  2. in theory, anyone can work out the editing history of any Wikipedia article. Just click on the article's View History tab, and work your way through the listed versions, right back to the first version. you can see what changes, additions, and deletions were made. In practice this can take you days or weeks. I said in theory. Sometimes edit wars happen - different volunteer editors keep undoing each other's work until either one gets fed up and gives up, or the dominant editor's friends gang up and swamp it. Worse, groups of them decide someone is a Bad Person and just delete everything he/she did, without trace, including the entries in the history list. I used to be a Wikipedia editor (English Wikipedia), but some twit noticed that different editor names had logged in with the same IP address. So him and his friends decided I was pretending to be different people and banned me. Stupid berks did not understand that many, but not all, internet service providers allocate IP addresses dynamically - you get a different address each time you start your computer. Some give you a new IP weekly. So, everything I had done got deleted - without trace. I am permanently banned - just because a few idiots don't understand how the internet works. Researchers and authors should always click on the Talk tab of any Wikipedia article. In the talk page you can see all the debates and arguments that went on between editors, and often the reasons why things got changed/added/deleted. Never the less, Wikipedia IS a good place to start to research or learn any subject. Just don't rely on the article text - instead, look up the references given and interpret the references for yourself. If an article claims something without giving a reference, ignore it - it cannot be trusted and is likely to be wrong. You are correct in saying you don't need an account to edit any article. However, Wikipedia has a vast number of rules for just about everything. The trouble with this is that most editors don't know all the rules. If you don't have an account you are much more likely to have any changes you made reverted - by some twit who thinks not having an account is a sign of evil intent, or is somehow naughty..
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