--- charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Caveat emptor still applies. People shouldn't
believe everything in the
newspapers, nor on Wikipedia. That doesn't make
newspapers or Wikipedia
useless.
True, but until the recent Nature comparison study, Wikipedia had been plagued both by an external anecdotal criticism fad and by an equally baseless internal inferiority complex disguised as 'establishing stability.' (Wherefore art thou, Wikifaith?)
For those who still think Wikipedia's overall quality is lacking, setting sights on Britannica was (in 20/20 hindsight) setting the sights too low.
stevertigo
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