[Wikipedia-l] Easton's Bible Dictionary

lcrocker at nupedia.com lcrocker at nupedia.com
Wed Aug 7 17:04:28 UTC 2002


> Is your objection
> a) the bias in many of the articles (in which case I can add a
> disclaimer, saying "This is from an old Bible Dictionary, and it
> has the biases of its author and period--please use this material
> as a basis for a new article")
...
> c) auto-addition of any material, even when filtered for stubs
> and nonsense?

I think it is important that all articles in Wikipedia be 
individually reviewed by a human editor.  "Data dumping" is not 
building an encyclopedia--quality is important, and out-of-date 
material is not quality.








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