[WikiEN-l] Why cutting'n'pasting from Wikipedia is not a good idea

Ron Ritzman ritzman at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 12:17:03 UTC 2007


On 3/13/07, Daniel P. B. Smith <wikipedia2006 at dpbsmith.com> wrote:

> People don't _seriously link_ about Wikipedia's reliability any more
> than they think about the reliability of their newspaper.

At least with the newspaper, there's no chance that, depending when
you choose to open it, you will see "BLOW ME" in big red letters
instead of the story you were expecting to read.



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