[WikiEN-l] let's be honest then

[Kelly Martin]

On 3/31/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) The idea of an error-free encyclopedia is a pipe dream. No
> sourcing requirements, no matter how onerous, will render us error-
> free. Pursuit of an impossible goal at the expense of achievable ones
> is foolish.

This is a false dialectic.  It's not a binary choice; please stop
presenting it as one.  Nobody expects an error-free encyclopedia, but
a lot of us would like one with fewer errors than the one we have now.

Kelly