On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:52 AM,
<wiki-list(a)phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:
On 24/10/2010 14:20, Fred Bauder wrote:
Taking this problem seriously, how can we
mitigate misplaced reliance?
Well you could put a banner above every article that read "The
information contained on the page could well be nonsense".
A better start would be to stop calling Wikipedia an encyclopedia.
Who on earth thinks an encyclopedia is an authoritative source?
Any professor would flunk you for citing an encyclopedia—any
encyclopedia—as a reference. I was homeschooled, and my mother would
have slapped me in the head for not finding a primary source.
Austin