On 10/4/07, Zoney zoney.ie@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately, Wikipedia is not completely off the hook. The incidence of errors in the project, and ability of anyone to add anything (which will not necessarily be picked up by others, despite what ultra-wiki-faith evangelists would have you believe) *is* a major issue.
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Indeed, if our answer is going to be to direct people to follow the citations why not blank the articles and replace them with the citations?
... because we do expect people to actually use the article text. Sticking our fingers in our ears and saying "use the citations" is just dishonest.
On the subject, does anyone care to write an explanation of why "mark as patrolled" didn't help us eons ago when it was done?