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Community leaders in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx tell the NY Times that they are not happy with the way their neighborhood is portrayed in its Wikipedia entry. Josephine Infante, the executive director and founder of the Hunts Point Economic Development Corporation, says she has a problem with several assertions on the Hunt Points entry, such as the one that "many, if not most men in the community have been arrested at some point in their lives." Infante says that the portrait of Hunts Point as one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the nation is out of date as crime has been down for years. Yet she has opted not to edit the entry herself because she says, "it should be an entire community that writes.” Infante did not comment how big of an influence the four HBO documentary specials "Hookers at the Point" may have had on the Wikipedia users take on the neighborhood.
Hunts Point Wikipedia Entry Accused of Inaccuracy
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Yet she has opted not to edit the entry herself because she says, "it should be an entire community that writes.”
Either fix it or shut up. The whole point of a wiki is that everybody can contribute. If you're just going to sit back and complain, then you're not helping in any meaningful way. Is she saying that she's not part of the community?
since when is it news that a wikipedia page isn't accurate?
Wikipedia is always inaccurate.
How is an "entire community" going to edit a wiki page?? Get off your fat ass and do some typing, woman.
edit the goddam entry if you don't like it. end of story
jeez what a f*cking waste of oxygen
she can't edit it as she obviously has no sources to back up her theory.
or she doesn't have a PC at home. or internets illiterate.
that's why some surf the net like crazy during working hours. but with free wifi almost everywhere just get a cheap laptop and a powerful wifi card/cantenna.
I am in the process of editing the wikipedia article adding, "Josephine Infante is the cause for all crime in Hunts Point"
Most South Bronx neighborhood Wikipedia entries have practically the same section.
Won't this just make more people want to hack the entry? It's almost as if she's presenting a challenge.
If it was up to HBO, the neighborhood would probably be called c*nt's point.