On Jan 22, 2008 4:52 PM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
As to determining reliability, this is a solved question.
I'd strongly disagree. If it were a solved problem, we wouldn't still be arguing about it.
There are certain sources that there's a lot of agreement that they're reliable - the cream of scientific journals, for instance (although even then, of course, reliable doesn't always mean RIGHT; there have been things published in all of those journals that have been later proven incorrect)/
There are certain sources that there's a lot of agreement they're not reliable - e.g. tabloid journalism, although if the tabloid coverage is in itself newsworthy, they're an accurate primary source for that tabloid coverage.
I don't think we can write all of Wikipedia from scientific journals, however.
-Matt