[WikiEN-l] Thousands of *awful* articles on websites

Ken Arromdee arromdee at rahul.net
Wed Jan 3 17:05:16 UTC 2007


On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Bogdan Giusca wrote:
> Wikipedia has way too many articles on websites, webcomics and
> other types of internet content -- likely thousands.
> 
> The problem is that around 95% of those articles are not sourced (or
> they are sourced from forum and blog posts) and at least 70% won't be
> able to be sourced because they were never mentioned in the mainstream
> press -- and probably very few were mentioned in books and journals.

Perhaps that means you need a broader view of what sourcing is.




More information about the WikiEN-l mailing list