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

[Ray Saintonge]

Phil Boswell wrote:

>Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
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>>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
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>>Now apply this to Wikipedia:
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>>s/science/article/
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>>QED.
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>...and your point is?
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>If this is yet another attempt to have fictional entities booted off
>Wikipedia, I'm sure I'll not be alone in getting rather annoyed.
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As a mathematician Poincaré would have been familiar with reasoning 
divorced from fact.  See [[Henri Poincaré#Philosophy]].  Unlike other 
scientists mathematicians are not mere fact-wallahs. They sit at the 
soul of science fiction.

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