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(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne(a)gmail.com>om>, English Wikipedia
<wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 04:12:04 +0100
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)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_n…
_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?
--
mvh Björn
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