On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:28:30PM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
I do hate it when people just dump, unwikified, unchecked, incorrectly named and OCR error ridden 1911 text into wikipedia expecting others to tidy things after them. It is oftentimes far more difficult to update all this AND modernize pedandic Victorian, often wrong and ultra-biased prose than it is to do some research on the topic and create an article from scratch. Dumping of unimproved 1911 text should be highly discouraged.
Yes. It's useful source material, but very few articles are of a standard that makes them useful even as a first draft of a Wikipedia article.