On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:52 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 24/10/2010 14:20, Fred Bauder wrote: >>> Taking this problem seriously, how can we mitigate misplaced reliance? >> >> Well you could put a banner above every article that read "The >> information contained on the page could well be nonsense". > > A better start would be to stop calling Wikipedia an encyclopedia.
Who on earth thinks an encyclopedia is an authoritative source? Any professor would flunk you for citing an encyclopedia—any encyclopedia—as a reference. I was homeschooled, and my mother would have slapped me in the head for not finding a primary source. Austin _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
