For Wikipedia editors perhaps the most useful feature of the typical
article in a scholarly journal is the opening section that summarizes
the state of the debate on a specific issue. Here you can get in a
nutshell what the main issues are and who is taking what position,
with citations to the main publications, In history articles, very
few editors make use of this. That is a serious research failure on
the part of Wikipedia, in my opinion.
Richard Jensen
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