[WikiEN-l] Nobel prizewinning chemist: "in my field, Wikipedia is more reliable than textbooks"

[David Goodman]

I removed the tag. It was added in 2009 by a usually reliable editor,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry_Kroto&diff=next&oldid=291030877],
at a time when the bio had  only one indisputably reliable source, the
Nobel biography, and a number of good sources marked as external
links, such as a BBC interview with him, the profiles of him at his
several universities, and a page listing him from the Royal  Society .
 I consider the addditon  of the tag more than a little
hyper-critical, and I'm surprised none of the many who must have seen
it  did not take  the opportunity to remove it.  By now  the p. has a
number of additional formal references documenting particular aspects,
but the basic facts are all in the Nobel bio.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Harry Kroto.
>>
>> 'Kroto shared his views on what he calls the "GooYouWiki-Revolution"
>> and spoke highly of Wikipedia as a resource.
>> "In my field," said Kroto, "it's more reliable than the textbooks."'
>>
>> http://www.reflector-online.com/life/wikipedia-not-all-bad-even-sexy-1.2665094
>
> Though his article has been tagged since May 2009 with {{BLP sources}}.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Kroto
>
> I wonder if that is back of the backlog mentioned in other posts, or
> an example of over-zealous tagging?
>
> I might try and tidy that article up if no-one else gets there first.
>
> Carcharoth
>
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