EB is not an encyclopedia, it's a book where scholars write about the stuff they know.
It has nothing to see with an encyclopedia as it was created by the philosophers of the Enlightenement. That kind of compendium existed long before and will continue to be useful... but it's not an encyclopedia !
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Before making fun of Wikipedia Robert McHenry and other EB FUD writers should compare our content to theirs.
For example, the 11th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica had *exactly* the same error as our article had. EB should have had an article on Alexander Hamilton for about 100 years by the time the 11th edition was published in 1911.
See http://14.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HA/HAMILTON_ALEXA NDER.htm
Wikipedia is less than 4 years old.
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-- mav
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