I'm a software engineer, so, sadly I thought about that too. Would that be considered a "page fault"? :)
(Seriously, if newspapers are using WP as a source, that's just scary.)
Angela
On 2/12/08, Noah Salzman nds@salzman.net wrote:
How many minutes until someone cites that URL on the [[Super delegates]] page and the internet crashes in a tight endless loop?
On Feb 12, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Angela Anuszewski wrote:
I just was looking at http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/politics/bal-primarytracker-html,0,4...
and saw that in one of the boxes on the page, the word "superdelegates" was a hyperlink - imagine my surprise when I clicked on it and it took me to the Wikipedia article.
Does anyone worry that if newspapers make a habit of doing that, their readers will look at Wikipedia as being as authoritative as the newspaper and not bother to check into the article's accuracy? After all, if the paper considers it authoritative enough to link to, it must be so, right?
Angela