[WikiEN-l] Why Wikipedia should not be a random collection of facts

Phil Boswell phil.boswell at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 15:55:13 UTC 2006



Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
> 
> Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made
> of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts
> is not necessarily science.
>                 -- Henri Poincaire
> 
> Now apply this to Wikipedia:
> 
> s/science/article/
> 
> QED.
> 
...and your point is?

If this is yet another attempt to have fictional entities booted off
Wikipedia, I'm sure I'll not be alone in getting rather annoyed.
-- 
Phil
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