Brian wrote:
Walter van Kalken wrote:
daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
Is it too much to ask that contributions to Wikipedia be correct? That is news to me.
Danny
There is a difference between an entry being correct and someone having to defend every letter of it.
Britannica has to defend every letter of it before they can get published. The same is true for all other major encyclopedias. Why wouldn't it be true for us? Aren't we trying to make an encyclopedia here?
Wikipedia is based on mutual trust. I trust that you put valid info on there. I ask you for the same trust. Now asking me to go and dig up were the hell I learned some things in my 32 years on this planet is a bit to much. If I actually research something especially for wikipedia I put sources on there(which is most of my contributions) If I just happen to know something I do not. You just have to trust my statement. Wikipedia is based on trust! Now if you say you cannot trust me I have to put about a 1000 articles on nl: and about 20 or so on en: on votes for deletion.
Waerth/Walter