Parents and school administrators and especially in the United States, local school boards. A teacher who allows their students free access to Wikipedia is a fool.
Fred
From: BJörn Lindqvist bjourne@gmail.com Reply-To: BJörn Lindqvist bjourne@gmail.com, English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 04:12:04 +0100 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] One reason why Wikipedia is not presently classroom-safe
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_no... _a_dictionary)
I listed it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Donkey_punch
Although the article has only been listed for only two days, so far there is a 2:1 majority vote for keep. In my opinion this kind of article would render Wikipedia difficult to describe as "safe for classroom use"; also teachers recommending it to
Why? What is "safe for classroom"?
younger children for homework research would be put at risk of censure because of articles like this. Whatever those who voted think Wikipedia
Who would put them at risk?
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