[Foundation-l] Wikiquote: to be, or not to be

Yann Forget yann at forget-me.net
Thu Sep 11 14:39:10 UTC 2008


mboverload wrote:
> I messed the last section up:  A lazy reporter cites something from
> Wikipedia that is not cited (and maybe not true).  The lazy reporter
> then reports on it in a reliable source.  Then that reliable source
> gets cited in the article to back up that "fact".

A reliable source doing that is not reliable anymore, i.e. this source 
is not suitable as a reference for Wikipedia.

Well, eh, just my 0.02 €.

Yann
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