[Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and moderate

[Austin Hair]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Austin Hair <adhair at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Austin Hair <adhair at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:52 AM,  <wiki-list at 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?
>>>
>>> How is that relevant?
>>
>> You seemed to be saying that by calling it an encyclopedia,
>> reliability is implied.
>
> A higher degree of reliability is implied than is provided.  I
> wouldn't go so far as to say that encyclopedias are generally
> authoritative, though.

You're asserting, then, that Wikipedia is less reliable than other
encyclopedias, which the research done on the subject contradicts.

Austin