On 30 Jun 2006 at 23:20, John Howell wrote: > No, the Wikipedia article is wrong. This does not surprise me, since > a website that is essentially a communal blog is pretty unreliable as > a reference!
Not true at all. A study was done comparing the accuracy of Wikipedia articles to those of published encyclopedias, and Wikipedia had only a slightly higher level of inaccuracy than the published encyclopedias. Anyone who has ever participated in the writing of encyclopedia articles or has read many of them carefully knows perfectly well that having an editor is no guarantee of inaccuracy. Editors override article authors and insert information that doesn't belong, and some individual authors introduce inaccurate or out-of-date information. The glory of Wikipedia is that these kinds of problems can be quickly fixed, by the community of people interested in each particular article. If *you* find an inaccuracy in a Wikipedia article, then check out the discussion page for that article (to see if it's an area of ongoing dispute among the article contributors) and then FIX IT YOURSELF. If you don't, and just complain about it being inaccurate, then you're PART OF THE PROBLEM. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
