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 Most books out there are not
peer-reviewed, only a very small portion of books published by university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