[WikiEN-l] A future for Nupedia?

[Samuel J. Howard]

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From: "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 12:07 AM
Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] A future for Nupedia?


> --- Jens Ropers <ropers at ropersonline.com> wrote:
>> We don't have to give them "that bit of comfort". They will get around
>> to reading and trusting our content anyway.
>
> And yet they are not and are in fact warning others to stay away from it. 
> My
> best friend, whose opinion I regard very highly, is a grade school 
> teacher. She
> is very intelligent, liberal minded, and has listened to me describe 
> Wikipedia
> and how it works. It pains me greatly to concede that she will not allow 
> any of
> her students to use our content as a reference due to the fact that it is 
> not
> approved by people with relevant degrees.

I'm sorry, but that is just ridiculous.  Most books out there are not 
peer-reviewed, only a very small portion of books published by university 
presses are.  Magazine articles are even less likely to be so.

Sam Howard