[Wikipedia-l] Entries for deletion.... issues from the Third World

[Walter van Kalken]

Stan Shebs wrote:

>Steve wrote:
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>>There's no reason to pit pedia and library against one another, and simply
>>because the possibility exists that you can find said newspaper subscription
>>in a library doesn't create a reason against duplicating that information in
>>pedia. There are interested parties outside Londoners and Bostonians.
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>I think you mistake my meaning - I was saying that books and newspapers 
>are an excellent, if unfashionable :-) , source of information worth 
>adding to WP. Doesn't everybody else type into WP with book propped open 
>in lap, or newspaper spread on floor?
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I wish this were true ...... by (insert your deity here) I wish. This 
was true of myself when I was still writing articles. I even went out 
and bought more books on the subjects I was writing about to compare the 
facts. But then you all of a sudden have to defend yourself against some 
kiddie who only reads websites and found this one site on the net who 
refutes your claims and because he cannot read books it is impossible to 
convince him, even though you can quote 10 books as a source and he only 
one derelict website the other kiddies will side with him because it is 
on the web so it must be the truth.

This is one of the reasons why I lost faith in community processes. The 
masses can so many times be convinced of a wrong thing it is 
unbelievable. Just because the masses say something or believe something 
it isn't always the truth you see. On wikipedia what the masses think is 
the truth is the truth.

Waerth