http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/magnus_linklater/article...
"I did a quick test on my own, looking up Nancy Mitford (I'm a fan) and judging the results on time and accuracy. Wikipedia gave me four pages of almost 100 per cent accurate information (I rang her niece, Emma Tennant, who spotted one small error), together with 33 links to related characters and a 16-line bibliography suggesting further reading. I got the whole lot in ten seconds.
"The Britannica required a 20-minute trip to my nearest library. It gave me 350 words and a bibliography with one entry (Harold Acton's memoir). The online version offered the chance of signing up to a 30-day free trial, but still required my credit card details, replete with reassurances about taking my privacy "very seriously" - always a worrying sign. The DNB provided by far the best and fullest entry (but so it should). However, a month's subscription costs £29.35, and a year will set you back £195 plus VAT."
On 16/01/2008, Sam Blacketer sam.blacketer@googlemail.com wrote: (quoting Linklater)
"I rang her niece, Emma Tennant, who spotted one small error"
I think we just breasted the tape and we're about to do the lap of victory.
Well done, everybody.
On 16/01/2008, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/01/2008, Sam Blacketer sam.blacketer@googlemail.com wrote: (quoting Linklater)
"I rang her niece, Emma Tennant, who spotted one small error"
I think we just breasted the tape and we're about to do the lap of victory.
Well done, everybody.
Except our article on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Brabazon has issues.
On 16/01/2008, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/01/2008, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/01/2008, Sam Blacketer sam.blacketer@googlemail.com wrote: (quoting Linklater)
"I rang her niece, Emma Tennant, who spotted one small error"
I think we just breasted the tape and we're about to do the lap of victory.
Well done, everybody.
Except our article on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Brabazon has issues.
Issues that must be resolved, to be sure, but you've been here long enough to see the huge improvement in article quality for yourself.
On Jan 15, 2008 6:03 PM, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/01/2008, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/01/2008, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/01/2008, Sam Blacketer sam.blacketer@googlemail.com wrote: (quoting Linklater)
"I rang her niece, Emma Tennant, who spotted one small error"
I think we just breasted the tape and we're about to do the lap of victory.
Well done, everybody.
Except our article on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Brabazon has issues.
Issues that must be resolved, to be sure, but you've been here long enough to see the huge improvement in article quality for yourself.
Nothing makes me feel happier about this than the fact that the article which we were praised for wasn't even a good or featured article, and that the counterexample brought up shortly afterwards, while obviously needing work, seems to be WP standards compliant and encyclopedic.
On 16/01/2008, Sam Blacketer sam.blacketer@googlemail.com wrote:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/magnus_linklater/article...
I rather liked "Should I trust Macaulay's error-littered, Whig-biased History of England simply because it is bound in leather and will take a trip to the library to find?"
We all fall prey to that one at times!
I am rather fond of any article which puts us in the same line of work as Tyndale...
On 16/01/2008, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
I am rather fond of any article which puts us in the same line of work as Tyndale...
Just as long as we don't meet the same end as Tyndale, I'll second that.