[Magdalen] Wikipedia

[Jay Weigel]

Wikipedia has been found to be, on the whole, no less reliable than
(ta-da!) the august Encyclopedia Britannica. People can now get off their
high horses about it.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:38 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>I think that  Wikipedia has come a very long way since its inception.<<<
>
> Wikipedia is, in my august opinion, simply marvelous.  Without it as, as
> Mr Knitter points out, a quick, relatively reliable first reference before
> deeper digging, I would simply not consider myself an educated person
> (contemporaneously speaking).  And as I pointed out to a friend on another
> list some time back, since most of what I look up is related to older
> literature, music, and film, it's hard not to get what basically amounts to
> the truth each time.
>
> You're just fine, Alan.  And hellatiously welcome here.  Period.
>