[WikiEN-l] Is Wikipedia a News Portal (among other things)?

[David Gerard]

On 21/09/06, Peter Jacobi <peter_jacobi at gmx.net> wrote:
> "Stephen Bain" <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:

> > The articles on last year's London bombings are also good examples.
> > [[2006 transatlantic aircraft plot]], within a few hours after the
> > story broke, was just about the best source available.

> If a Wikipedia article is "the best source available", it has
> become original research.


Or just the best-researched. Your assertion appears trivially false.


- d.