[WikiEN-l] Age fabrication and original research

Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Wed Sep 30 12:06:19 UTC 2009


Kat Walsh wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> The soundbite I use is that "Wikipedia outsources truth". The debate about
>> what is or isn't true is not ours but is played out amongst the various
>> sources that we can draw upon as references.
>>     
Does have the slightly unfortunate implication that anyone on the site 
who actually knows facts could find themselved "downsized". And, of 
course, that we have a perfectly transparent notion of "reliable 
source", which would be a lie.

Charles




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