[WikiEN-l] Ars Technica: Prof replaces term papers with Wikipedia contributions, suffering ensues

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"David Gerard" wrote

> There's little low-hanging fruit left, as we've noted here
> before - but any WikiProject will have endless lists of red links just
> waiting for someone to do the legwork to research and write an
> article. 

Bah. I still dispute this.

>Someone with university-level research facilities should be
> able to do a much better job than from a mere Googling, in not much
> more time.

A proper library for writing a proper article, OK. But let's not propagate the fallacy that one can't write a good stub any more.

Charles

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