[WikiEN-l] Re: Wikipedia in the news

[Mark Richards]

I don't think so, although, of course, the two
sometimes do go together. We have some contributors
for whom English is not their first language. Grammar
and spelling are an issue for them where facts are
not. Mark

--- Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.org> wrote:
> Timwi wrote:
> 
> > Sheldon Rampton wrote:
> > 
> >> Just out of curiosity, I clicked the "Random
> page" link a few times. 
> >> Out of ten articles, I found five stubs, two of
> which had frequent 
> >> grammatical errors. [...]
> >> My little experiment isn't sufficient to serve as
> the basis for any 
> >> conclusions, but if two out of ten articles are
> grammatically-flawed 
> >> stubs, [...]
> > 
> > 
> > Concluding factual inaccuracy or unreliability
> from mere grammatical 
> > imperfection is fallacious and prejudicial.
> 
> On the contrary, it is a safe assumption that
> someone who is careless 
> about grammar and spelling is also careless about
> factual accuracy.
> 
> -- 
>   Sean Barrett     | Guns cause crime like garbage
> causes flies.
>   sean at epoptic.com |
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