[WikiEN-l] [[WP:V]] and [[WP:RS]] are destroying Wikipedia
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Mon Sep 18 17:59:13 UTC 2006
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.
Ec
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