[WikiEN-l] Why Wikipedia should not be a random collection of facts

Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax at gmail.com
Sun Apr 16 03:56:34 UTC 2006


Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made
of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts
is not necessarily science.
                -- Henri Poincaire

Now apply this to Wikipedia:

s/science/article/

QED.

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