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
Regards,
Newyorkbrad/IBM
On 4/7/15, Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu(a)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(a)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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