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

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 14:38:55 -0600 (CST), "Jeff Raymond"
> <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
> 
>> The sooner we start allowing blogs and other self-published publications
>> be reliable sources for these sorts of things, the better.
> 
> Yes, you'll get rid of all those tiresome people who think Wikipedia
> is an encyclopaedia and aspire to some kind of credibility, and you
> can get on with the job of documenting crap off teh internets, a genre
> for which there is a real paucity of verbiage based on other crap off
> teh internets.
> 
> Wait, I think you just invented Fark.
> 

Or that-site-which-must-not-be-named-on-threat-of-arbcom.

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