[Magdalen] Wikipedia

[Scott Knitter]

Wikipedia is highly valuable, and more so as more people write,
revise, and repair articles. Now that more people know how Wikipedia
is created and maintained, I think there will be less derision aimed
at it. Clearly it's not the last word on anything nor a scholarly
source, but then neither is a printed encyclopedia. It's a first
reference and quite often a start of further research. At its best, it
gives exactly what I want to know about a subject. And realizing it
can be wrong, or that someone can come in and make it wrong, helps one
use its riches appropriately and recognize when it fails to provide
(because no one has written or perfected an article on the subject,
yet).

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From time to time, someone snottily refers to my use of Wikipedia. That's just another putdown. Never in more than a decade has anyone supplied any contrary information to the information I've used.




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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA