[WikiEN-l] Independent article

Ryzvel at 3mail.com Ryzvel at 3mail.com
Fri Jan 19 10:14:20 UTC 2007


Sounds a bit like the Brittanica! Tim . . .
On 18/01/07, nunh.huh at mac.com <nunh.huh at mac.com> wrote:

> > what do we do when mostly we're right, we're occasionally
> laughably (or harmfully?) wrong

> Well, when the reporter calls, it might be good to follow-up "Wikipedia is not a reliable source" with "and there are no sources which are completely reliable", and point them towards our <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premature_obituaries>


"Like the print media, Wikipedia is a *pretty good* source, but it's
not of such reliability that you can just accept whatever you see
there without thinking for yourself." How's that?


- d.

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