[WikiEN-l] [[WP:V]] and [[WP:RS]] are destroying Wikipedia

[Ray Saintonge]

Kim van der Linde wrote:

>You went from claiming that Wikipedia was reliable to saying that
>everything is unreliable. So, the issue we talk about is the degree of 
>unreliability, and my contention is that Wikipedia for a tertiary source 
>is to unreliable to be used as a source for research. Wikipedia 
>unfortunately is often a primary source, with articles that are not more 
>than a first year essay on a topic.
>
First year essays are not ipso facto unreliable.  Many of them indeed 
are, but that's not *because* of their being first year.

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