On 24 October 2010 20:26, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
None of which I'd expect to say that John
Seigenthaler is a murderer.
There are mistakes of facts, and then there's malicious lies. I'd
definitely expect more of the latter in Wikipedia than in any of the
traditional encyclopedias.
So your position is that you have the authority to draw lines in the sand.
No, "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia" is not
consistent with any rational
definitions of "Wikipedia" and "encyclopedia". "Wikipedia"
cannot be
"an encyclopedia", because it isn't "a work".
Put it in a fixed form, like on a CD, and then you can call it an encyclopedia.
Your position would require that Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds wasn't a
work until 15 October. A somewhat non standard approach I feel. In
fact wikipedia is at any given moment in a fixed form. So in fact
there are a few tens of wikipedia encyclopedias a minute.
--
geni