[WikiEN-l] Include both, with sources?

[Ray Saintonge]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

>On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:07:40 -0400, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Because normally we don't report on errors on maps. We don't say "FDOT 
>>turned over part of SR 2 to Nassau County in the 1980s, but some maps 
>>still show it as a state road."
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>Why not, if it's verifiable?  Surely that is an interesting and useful
>piece of information?
>
For once I agree with you about something. :-)

I suppose that in some ways this is related to NPOV issues, but where 
there is no real dispute.  This kind of innocent error tends to be 
perpetrated until they are widely pointed out, and that needs to be done 
for as long as the error keeps recurring.  In another area the term 
"brontosaurus" was deprecated 95 years after it was introduced, but we 
can't avoid the fact that this creature is still ubiquitous in 
children's literature.  Much of this is written by people with no 
understanding of paleontology.  We'll probably need to keep pointing out 
this error much longer than the one about the Nassau County roads.

Ec