On 13/02/2008, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
In many respects we probably *are* more authoritative than the newspapers. Sheer modesty prevents us from admitting it.
The scary thing is not how unreliable or not Wikipedia is (and no-one's more aware of that than those of us writing and editing it), but how unreliable everything else is. Anyone who's ever been quoted in a newspaper could only give a hollow laugh at the idea of newspapers automatically being considered "reliable sources." Encyclopedia Britannica is quite the sausage factory, the difference being you can't see inside theirs as you can with ours.
- d.