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wikipedia entry on ten-string guitar can no longer be considered reliable 

It has been a battle to keep the wikipedia entry on ""ten-string guitar"" from being turned into the usual farce that one expects of the ""information"" presented in both wikipedia and most sites that purport to be about the 10-string guitar (both being 'littered with inaccuracies' and even deliberate misinformation). 

For the time being, I must devote my energies to the final stages of my Doctoral studies and let the fools play at being pseudo-musicologists on wikipedia. It is, however, a disgrace that the first two pages through which most online readers are introduced to ""the ten-string guitar"" (that is wikipedia and Janet Marlow's tenstringguitar(dot)com) are riddled with inaccuracies, untenable claims, and (as shown in a previous blog) even deliberate distortion of Narciso Yepes's words in an attempt to misrepresent the historical and scientific facts of the matter.

Since I've spoken out about this disinformation, I note that my main page here has suspiciously been deleted from most google search listings containing the terms ""10-string guitar"" or ""ten-string guitar"". Some of our American ""colleagues"" evidently don't like the truth coming out about their dishonest ""scholarship"".

As for wikipedia, be advised that I no longer oversee the accuracy of the ""ten-string guitar"" page and this should now be considered as unreliable as most of the other misleading ten-string guitar sites. The person presently responsible for the (from a musicological/organological point of view) misinformative wikipedia entry is Andrew Alder, whose musical ""expertise"" as far as I can gather is limited to playing drums and rhythm guitar in his local Sydney Anglican church. Yet he too deems himself an ""authority"" who is in a position to ""educate"" readers about the 10-string guitar (an instrument he has no doubt never played).  

It is exactly this problem with wikipedia (that any lay person can edit it and can even become an administrator if they have too much free time on their hands and are willing to kiss enough derriere) that has caused it to be banned by universities and to be blamed for ""making kids dumb"" and for falling grades of students who turn to this misinformative online ""encyclopaedia"" for research.

[] Click here for Article in The Scotsman about wikipedia's role in descending grades amongst students.
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