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Re: Wikipedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis

Thor Lancelot Simon (tls@panix.com)
Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:19:31 +0000 (UTC)

In article <telecom24.567.3@telecom-digest.org>, Danny Burstein
<dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

> I'm shocked that finding "four major errors" (out of 50) [as stated in
> the original article] in both Wikipedia _AND_ in the Encyclopeadia
> Brittanica hasn't led to people ripping the latter to shreds.

Well, it's generally frowned upon to cite it (or similar works) in
scholarly writing at anything but the most elementary level. The same
kind of scorn should be applied to writers who cite Wikipedia;
unfortunately, sometimes it is not.

Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com

"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is
to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky

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