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On Oct 4, 2005, at 4:32 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:

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These are excellent observations. My son's Social Studies teacher is an info geek who is familiar with Wikipedia. I should ask him if he would be willing to run a survey of his class asking: "What belongs in an encyclopedia?" and "What should not be in an encyclopedia?"

I think it would be important to specify "Wikipedia" not "an encyclopedia," so as to avoid treating Wikipedia like paper.

WHAT?

I've suspected for some time that there is a faction that does not think Wikipedia should be an encyclopedia, but this is the first time I've seen this stated in so many words.

So much for "five pillars."

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