Re: [Wikimediauk-l] TLS review of Jack Lynch, You Could Look It Up

The Thonemann article turns out to be public (about a third of TLS articles are): http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/encyclopedic-knowledge/ I rather enjoyed this - "Given the manner of its compilation, the accursed thing really is a whole lot more reliable than it has any right to be. Like many university lecturers, I used to warn my own students off using Wikipedia (as pointless an injunction as telling them not to use Google, or not to leave their essay to the last minute). I finally gave up doing so about three years ago, after reading a paper by an expert on South Asian coinage in which the author described the Wikipedia entry on the Indo-Greek Kingdom (c.200 BC–AD 10) as the most reliable overview of Indo-Greek history to be found anywhere – quite true, though not necessarily as much of a compliment to Wikipedia as you might think." Andrew. On 26 May 2016 at 11:56, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk