On 24 October 2010 20:26, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > None of which I'd expect to say that John Seigenthaler is a murderer. > There are mistakes of facts, and then there's malicious lies. I'd > definitely expect more of the latter in Wikipedia than in any of the > traditional encyclopedias.
So your position is that you have the authority to draw lines in the sand. > No, "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia" is not consistent with any rational > definitions of "Wikipedia" and "encyclopedia". "Wikipedia" cannot be > "an encyclopedia", because it isn't "a work". > > Put it in a fixed form, like on a CD, and then you can call it an > encyclopedia. Your position would require that Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds wasn't a work until 15 October. A somewhat non standard approach I feel. In fact wikipedia is at any given moment in a fixed form. So in fact there are a few tens of wikipedia encyclopedias a minute. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
