On related points concerning the accuracy level and overall usefulness of Wikipedia as compared with other resources, people may be interested in my posting here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Newyorkbrad/Newyorkbradblog#A_reference_librarian_reviews_Wikipedia and the second half of my book review here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-07-30/Book_review Regards, Newyorkbrad/IBM On 4/7/15, Anthony Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > It's an encyclopedia, Marc. The world's encyclopedia. People should be able > to trust it. You and the rest of the WMF need to get that through your > heads or you'll wake up one morning soon and find Wikipedia on page 2 of > Google and you out of a job. This is the most important issue facing > Wikipedia. Denial isn't helping. > > Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole> > > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 15-04-07 12:51 PM, Anthony Cole wrote: >> > Wikipedia >> > should not be trusted for anything - least of all health matters . >> >> That's a perfectly true, but perfectly vacuous assertion. Wikipedia >> should be trusted exactly as much as any other single source may be >> trusted, for exactly the same reason. Striving to find the most >> reliable sources is fraught with pitfalls whether you attempt do to it >> yourself or rely on the collective efforts of Wikipedia editors to do so. >> >> Wikipedia is a giant collection of summaries and overview of topics, and >> it never pretendend to be anything else. If you *end* your reasearch >> there for anything of importance, then you commit as sin no graver (nor >> lighter) than picking any other random book on the topic and ending your >> research there. >> >> -- Marc >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
