[WikiEN-l] "Reliability" and "usefulness"

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"Daniel P. B. Smith" wrote

> The "law of recycling" states that the value per pound of a mixture  
> of recycled material is equal to the value per pound of the least  
> valuable material in the mixture. To at least a first approximation,  
> the value of Wikipedia is set by the value of the least accurate  
> material in Wikipedia. 

Really? That might mean the value oscillates wildly, or on the other hand is steady at zero. Some problem with this: in fact the value has gradually increased, month-on-month. Naturally "value" here hides some issues. Pragmatically speaking, the criterion doesn't work, for reference material. 

Charles 

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