On 5/22/07, Will Beback will.beback.1@gmail.com wrote:
Maintaining such a large number of vandal magnets is an enormous burden. In exchange for all of that work we are basically just repeating the information on the schools' own websites. Why should we bother? What's the benefit?
NPOV, free content licensing, encyclopedic format, all those things that make Wikipedia great.
That's the theory, anyway. In practice maybe there isn't enough of that to outweigh the detriments, which would be what, the libel? If anyone wants to do a pseudo-scientific study on what portion of articles on schools contains libel, instead of us all just trading anecdotes, it would help.
Anthony