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Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by Jarus(m): 12:50pm On Apr 11, 2009 |
I'm reading this on Wikipedia now: Early yearshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obafemi_Martins The bolded part refers. There are two things here that I think are not correct. 1, That martins is an alumnus of OAU. 2, That Obafemi Awolowo was his maternal grandfather. First, I have read Martins profile time and again and I have never come across his gaining admission to OAU, not to talk of finishing. I'm 95% sure this can't be true, because I know OAU would have been celebrating him with Soji Fasuba, Olumide Oyedeji and a couple of OAU alumni that are making/made waves in sports. Second, I'm 100% sure of this. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, whom OAU was named after, cannot be the father of Martins' mother, the Alhaja that died recently. We all know Awo's children(late Segun, Oluwole, Tola, Tokunbo, Ayo). And the final straw: Obafemi is even his first, not family name. So before I go ahead and delete that sentence from Wikipedia via edit function, anyone know if I'm teh one that is wrong? |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by yousouph(m): 5:28pm On Apr 11, 2009 |
Its definitely a goof cos i never hear or read from inception of Martins popularity relating 2 Awo or Alumni of OAU |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by dayokanu(m): 5:34pm On Apr 11, 2009 |
Wiki can be updated by anybody. I can go there and write Martins finished his PhD from Harvard. and it would be there for people to read. |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by A40(m): 8:19pm On Apr 11, 2009 |
dayokanu:Yup its totally editable!! that's why most schools would usually not accept references from Wiki |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by Nobody: 9:15pm On Apr 12, 2009 |
A-40: Except Naija schools. |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by allboyz(m): 9:24pm On Apr 12, 2009 |
BlueDiva:word! A-40: My GF mentioned this . . but i never believed . , DK . .good contribution |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by Jarus(m): 5:21pm On Apr 13, 2009 |
BlueDiva:wetin concern Naija schools with source anyway. Whether wiki or google or akarakoro.com, nobody cares 1 Like |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by Pataki: 6:06pm On Apr 13, 2009 |
BlueDiva:You are wicked! Name names please. @ topic, Wiki goofed big time. You can go ahead and make the necessary corrections. |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by bawomolo(m): 6:45pm On Apr 13, 2009 |
ha ha una don come. don't disrespect the elite institutions of nigeria. didn't they break top 1000 |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by carloshome(m): 8:04pm On Apr 13, 2009 |
SO MARTINS IS THIS POPULAR. HMMMMM LET THEM PRAY FOR HIS SO THAT HIS CAREER WILL BE REVIVED NOW THAT SHEARER IS IN CHARGE |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by MrCrackles(m): 8:08pm On Apr 13, 2009 |
Goof hoof poof! |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by spikedcylinder: 10:07am On Apr 14, 2009 |
If anyone can edit on wiki then its absolutely unreliable. To think I take its entries seriously. . . . |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by Pepeye(f): 10:49am On Apr 14, 2009 |
Pack of lies. . never did take them serious |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by OOLUSEG(m): 11:43am On Apr 14, 2009 |
@poster it seems ur informtion re totally incorrect. I ve checked the wiki page of obafemi Martins and i found noting related to what u posted. Pls always confirm ur source b4 posting |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by Jarus(m): 1:00pm On Apr 14, 2009 |
OOLUSEG:It was just edited, obviously because of this thread. It was still there at least by yesterday morning when I checked last. I attempted editing it, deleting that sentence, but I wasn't registered, which was a prerequisite for editing entries, and I didn't ahve time to fill any form in registration details. My quote up there was directly copied from the page. Probably somebody reading thsi has done the editing. The last editing was done this morning,8.25 am, by one 'astonishingdee' (cur) (prev) 08:25, 14 April 2009 Astonishingdee (talk | contribs) (16,942 bytes) (→Early years) (undo) Check edit history here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Obafemi_Martins&action=history |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by alex406(m): 3:22pm On Apr 14, 2009 |
whats all these beefing about,must you crucify yourself if Martins is not what he is said to be. |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by Jarus(m): 5:22pm On Apr 14, 2009 |
alex406:Who is beefing who here? We are trying to correct a misinformation |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by FOD(m): 6:24pm On Apr 14, 2009 |
OOLUSEG: I edited it. |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by bawomolo(m): 6:53pm On Apr 14, 2009 |
wikipedia isn't absolutely unreliable. the Sensitive topics like evolution, Islam etc require edits done by approved posters and not just not any tom dick and harry. It's the personal biographies and obscure topics that can't really be trusted. |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by deb(m): 10:12pm On Apr 14, 2009 |
wetin concern Naija schools with source anyway. Whether wiki or google or akarakoro.com, nobody caresNa only Wiki? na Chiki |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by azeezbaba(m): 9:55am On Apr 15, 2009 |
Wiki my ass. I used to rely on wikipedia but henceforth, i will stop sourcing info from there if every tom dick and harry can edit info there. |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by Jarus(m): 11:44am On Apr 15, 2009 |
azeezbaba:I don't think you need to stop sourcing info there. I'm sure at laest 95% of teh info there are correct. |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by SamMilla1(m): 3:44pm On Apr 15, 2009 |
Some funny clown probably added that rubish there. |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by kioooo: 9:51am On Apr 16, 2009 |
I'm logging in now to wiki to add that he's a graduate of MIT with a distinction in Software Engineering. |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by bababuff(m): 1:41pm On Apr 16, 2009 |
@poster Good job for bringing this up, and getting it corrected. More research. |
Re: Martins' Profile: Did Wiki Goof Or What? by cliveland: 11:49pm On Apr 18, 2009 |
its was an error, i am family friend n know them very personally i mean martins family, NO connetion/relation at all, errorrrrrrrrr. |
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