[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's role in the Palin selection

[Charles Matthews]

"Thomas Dalton" wrote

> There
> must be better ways to research politicians (political who's whos,
> looking at actual polls, reading transcripts of their actual speeches,
> reading manifestos, etc.) than looking them up in a general
> encyclopaedia.

Correct. But to avoid the Andrew Keen-ish spin, one should note that "search" and "research" have become rather different animals. "Search" on Wikipedia, as we know, is brilliant if you are trying to compile a list of politicians. You'll get your list and the risk of there not being an article on someone relevant to American national politics as a candidate is low. As we always say, this should only be the first step in your research. 

Question - was this paid work? 

Charles

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