[WikiEN-l] News.com: Teen's warning on the gospel of Wikipedia

MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic at gmail.com
Sun Aug 20 17:54:42 UTC 2006


The author of the article seems to forget that while you should take any
source with a grain of salt, online ones in particular. Wikipedia has the
advantage that it is subject to quality control (despite of what the author
says) althought it's nearly impossible to keep an eye out on all entries.
Wikipedia has the advantage of allowing the readers to track down the
sources for any given entry. If there aren't any, you can contact the author
and ask where they got it.

And no, it's not to propagate your views or that of your peers.

I don't think this is a particularly good article in case you didn't
notice...

Mgm



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