Wikipedia Knows Too Much
Today I was reading the Signal vs. Noise blog and I following a link to BMW’s page on Wikipedia. I was skimming through the section on Rolls-Royce when I noticed that it mentioned the Crewe Factory. Oddly enough, I knew that Rolls-Royce had a plant in Crewe.
My dad has an auto body shop in Burkeville, Virginia, which is about 5 miles from Crewe, Virginia. When I was younger I remember that an executive from Rolls-Royce visited Crewe, Virginia because it was named after the city where the Rolls-Royce factory was (or something like that). While this guy was in the area, he had been told about my dad’s shop and came up to pay my dad a visit and see the shop. So when I saw the link to Crewe from the BMW page, I had to check it out.
To my horror, the first thing I noticed at the top of the Crewe, England page was a link to Crewe, Virginia. At the top of the Crewe, Virginia page there was a link to Nottoway County, which referenced pages about Burkeville, Virginia and Blackstone, Virginia, my hometown. According to Wikipedia, “As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 3,675.”
The Internet is a crazy place!
Hi, I live in Crewe (Virginia). My family relocated there from Richmond a couple of years ago. It’s not so strange, most of the information comes from the census.
Comment by Hallow — June 5, 2006 @ 2:50 pm