Wikipedia has been, is, & ever shall be a work in progress. I don't think
anyone is denying that any Wikimedia project is imperfect nor is anyone
suggesting that there is no room for improvement. Regarding
trustworthiness, *Доверяй, но проверяй* [Trust, but verify
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify>]. One should always go to
the citation sources. A Wikipedia will always be a summary of information,
& not the be-all or end-all.
Anthony, if your comments were on on Wiki, I might have posted {{Uw-sofixit
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Uw-sofixit&redirect=no>}}
on your talk page. Please, we need you help. If you see something wrong,
please be bold & fix it. Sometimes Wikipedia can only be improved one
article & one edit at a time.
Yours,
Peaceray
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Anthony Cole <ahcole...@gmail.com> 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 <m...@uberbox.org>
> 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
> >
> >
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