[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia is an encyclopedia

[Stirling Newberry]

On Mar 9, 2005, at 8:09 AM, Evan Prodromou wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-08-03 at 11:16 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
>
>> PhDs are valuable evidence of that, and attracting and
>> retraining academic specialists is a valid goal.
>
> I hope you mean "retaining" and not "retraining" here, Jimbo. B-)
>
> ~Evan
>

Both Wikipedia is different from academic writing. The point of an 
academic paper is to drive to a point, the purpose of a wiki article is 
to describe the points made in notable and documentable sources.