[WikiEN-l] Re: in response to your article "Librarian: Don't use Wikipedia as source" in the Post-Standard

[phil hunt]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:19:22 -0700, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>Elisabeth Bauer wrote:
>> So please don't tell people "go and try" (they will suceed if they are 
>> halfway intelligent) but tell them: "most people just don't do it, 
>> that's why wikipedia works".
>
>I agree very strongly with this.  When I talk to reporters and this
>topic comes up, I specifically ask them *not* to do it, because it is
>very rude behavior, even as an experiment.

All this talk of deliberately wrong edits has apparently inspired a
misguided person, one [[User:AlHalawi]], to do it.

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