Re: [WikiEN-l] Nobel prizewinning chemist: "in my field, Wikipedia is more reliable than textbooks"

2011-11-05 Thread Bod Notbod
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > When I look at an article as an ordinary reader looking for information > I mostly don't notice if it has been referenced... I fall into the category satirised by XKCD (though I can't find the strip, unfortunately): if a sentence has a littl

Re: [WikiEN-l] Nobel prizewinning chemist: "in my field, Wikipedia is more reliable than textbooks"

2011-11-05 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 11/04/11 8:45 AM, geni wrote: > On 4 November 2011 14:24, Tony Sidaway wrote: >> Harry Kroto. >> >> 'Kroto shared his views on what he calls the "GooYouWiki-Revolution" >> and spoke highly of Wikipedia as a resource. >> "In my field," said Kroto, "it's more reliable than the textbooks."' >> >>

Re: [WikiEN-l] Nobel prizewinning chemist: "in my field, Wikipedia is more reliable than textbooks"

2011-11-05 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 11/04/11 11:24 PM, Carcharoth wrote: > Thanks for that. And for looking into the history of that. The fact > that the tag stayed there for so long doesn't surprise me at all. Most > casual editors, if they don't know how the system works, will assume > that someone else will deal with the tag an