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

[Katie Chan]

On 05/11/2011 10:46, Bod Notbod wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Ray Saintonge<saintonge at telus.net>  wrote:
>
>> When I look at an article as an ordinary reader looking for information
>> I mostly don't notice if it has been referenced...
>
> I fall into the category satirised by XKCD (though I can't find the
> strip, unfortunately): if a sentence has a little blue number at the
> end of it I am satisfied that it is definitely true.

http://xkcd.com/906/

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