On related points concerning the accuracy level and overall usefulness of Wikipedia as compared with other resources, people may be interested in my posting here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Newyorkbrad/Newyorkbradblog#A_reference_l...
and the second half of my book review here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-07-30/Book_r...
Regards, Newyorkbrad/IBM
On 4/7/15, Anthony Cole ahcoleecu@gmail.com wrote:
It's an encyclopedia, Marc. The world's encyclopedia. People should be able to trust it. You and the rest of the WMF need to get that through your heads or you'll wake up one morning soon and find Wikipedia on page 2 of Google and you out of a job. This is the most important issue facing Wikipedia. Denial isn't helping.
Anthony Cole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Marc A. Pelletier marc@uberbox.org wrote:
On 15-04-07 12:51 PM, Anthony Cole wrote:
Wikipedia should not be trusted for anything - least of all health matters .
That's a perfectly true, but perfectly vacuous assertion. Wikipedia should be trusted exactly as much as any other single source may be trusted, for exactly the same reason. Striving to find the most reliable sources is fraught with pitfalls whether you attempt do to it yourself or rely on the collective efforts of Wikipedia editors to do so.
Wikipedia is a giant collection of summaries and overview of topics, and it never pretendend to be anything else. If you *end* your reasearch there for anything of importance, then you commit as sin no graver (nor lighter) than picking any other random book on the topic and ending your research there.
-- Marc
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