----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Mayer" maveric149@yahoo.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 12:07 AM Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] A future for Nupedia?
--- Jens Ropers ropers@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 Most books out there are not peer-reviewed, only a very small portion of books published by university presses are.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