Millionaire on Wikipedia

[tpirfan28]

Found this on the Millionaire Wiki page...is this true?  I haven't heard anything about it (if it is true....)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Wants_to_...lled_US_Edition

[TLEberle]

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'188311\' date=\'Jun 16 2008, 03:28 PM\']
Found this on the Millionaire Wiki page...is this true?  I haven't heard anything about it (if it is true....)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Wants_to_...lled_US_Edition
[/quote]Given that double, triple and half are the possibilities of the Wheel of Deal, I think this is a poorly thought out falsehood, and a waste of Wiki-energy.

[chad1m]

I'd assume not, since I haven't either and it's unsourced, so let me remove it.

(For those of you wondering what was there...):

[quote name=\'Wikipedia\']
          o In 2003, the producers of Millionaire in the US decided to make an edition in which you'd spin a wheel divided into thirds with the three sections saying "Double Down", "Cut in Half" or "Triple Up".

If you spun and landed on "Double Down", you'd have to play with this board:

    * $200
    * $400
    * $600
    * $1,000
    * $2,000
    * $4,000
    * $8,000
    * $16,000
    * $32,000
    * $64,000
    * $128,000
    * $250,000
    * $500,000
    * $1,000,000
    * $2,000,000

If you spun and landed on "Cut in Half", you'd have this board:

    * $50
    * $100
    * $150
    * $250
    * $500
    * $1,000
    * $2,000
    * $4,000
    * $8,000
    * $16,000
    * $32,000
    * $62,500
    * $125,000
    * $250,000
    * $500,000

If you spun and landed on "Triple Up", you'd have this board:

    * $300
    * $600
    * $900
    * $1,500
    * $3,000
    * $6,000
    * $12,000
    * $24,000
    * $48,000
    * $96,000
    * $192,000
    * $375,000
    * $750,000
    * $1,500,000
    * $3,000,000[/quote]

[Dbacksfan12]

The edit was made by an anonymous IP user.  I've found them to be less-than-reliable the majority of the time.

Besides, rarely, if ever, has anything been posted there as fact that hadn't already been known here.

[Kevin Prather]

Plus, they made that edition (sic) in 2003, we'd have seen it by now.

[davemackey]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'188316\' date=\'Jun 16 2008, 07:32 PM\']
Plus, they made that edition (sic) in 2003, we'd have seen it by now.
[/quote]
Probably the same person that said there'd be a million dollar winner last season. (There wasn't.)

[Kevin Prather]

[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'188318\' date=\'Jun 16 2008, 06:22 PM\']
[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'188316\' date=\'Jun 16 2008, 07:32 PM\']
Plus, they made that edition (sic) in 2003, we'd have seen it by now.
[/quote]
Probably the same person that said there'd be a million dollar winner last season. (There wasn't.)
[/quote]
Ah yes. A winner named Dan Weisman. I wonder who posted that? Dare I go out on a limb and say...some guy named Dan Weisman?

[Mr. Matté]

I love how when an anonymous user deleted the non-info, regular users (one of which is an admin.) reverted it back without bothering to [color=\"#3333FF\"][cite source][/color].

[WhammyPower]

And you'd think they'd put it, instead, on the US article.

[TLEberle]

[quote name=\'NewJersey137\' post=\'188334\' date=\'Jun 17 2008, 05:14 AM\']I love how when an anonymous user deleted the non-info, regular users (one of which is an admin.) reverted it back without bothering to [color=\"#3333FF\"][cite source][/color].[/quote]Apropos of nothing, I listened to a recent interview with the author of The Dumbest Generation. His premise is that instead of using all of this spiffy technology to learn and better themselves, they're goofing around on MySpace, texting, and what-not.

I can't help but think of how far away from the ideals of Wikipedia we've come. Instead of trying to build up an encyclopedia of actual information that could be useful, we have unchecked people who can barely formulate coherent thoughts mucking up actual information, and knowledgeable people who are being prevented from using their knowledge to the fullest.

(Looking at the "cancelled edition," I notice a few things, like" would have to play with this board," when the result is that all of the money would be doubled. What a hardship that would be. Along with that, the poster assumes we can't do simple math by ourselves, or feels like increasing the size of the page by 45 lines.)

I think I need a beer to cry into.

[Robert Hutchinson]

[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'188392\' date=\'Jun 17 2008, 11:03 PM\']I can't help but think of how far away from the ideals of Wikipedia we've come. Instead of trying to build up an encyclopedia of actual information that could be useful, we have unchecked people who can barely formulate coherent thoughts mucking up actual information, and knowledgeable people who are being prevented from using their knowledge to the fullest.[/quote]
I would pin a lot of that just on Wikipedia being much more well-known and much huger in size than it was several years ago.

[clemon79]

And as we've said many many times in the past, the accuracy of a Wiki article is directly proportional to how academic the subject is, and to that end it's surprising how well it works there. And it very well might be because all of the crackpots are drawn to the niche subjects (like game shows) and therefore aren't bothering to vandalize that history of William Howard Taft.

[mmb5]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'188402\' date=\'Jun 18 2008, 03:26 AM\']
And it very well might be because all of the crackpots are drawn to the niche subjects (like game shows) and therefore aren't bothering to vandalize that history of William Howard Taft.
[/quote]
You mean how he was eaten by wolves?

[inturnaround]

[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'188406\' date=\'Jun 18 2008, 08:48 AM\']

You mean how he was eaten by wolves?
[/quote]

He was delicious.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'188406\' date=\'Jun 18 2008, 05:48 AM\']
You mean how he was eaten by wolves?[/quote]
And eaten...and eaten...and eaten...