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

[Delirium]

charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com wrote:
> Ray Saintonge wrote
>   
>> Claims about whether Wikipedia is reliable or unreliable are most often 
>> speculative. 
>>     
>
> Wikipedia is unreliable. You can't settle a bet with Wikipedia. If you actually needed to buy Britannica in the past, you still do. The wriggle-room between 'unreliable' and 'useless' turns out to be so large we have shoehorned a multimillion-article reference site in there.
>   

Indeed, the wiggle room is so large that nearly all published material 
fits in it!  Britannica not least---you've certainly never been able to 
cite "Britannica said it" as reliable evidence if you're writing 
something like an academic paper, and yet it manages to have proven 
quite useful over a long period of time.

-Mark