[Magdalen] Wikipedia

James Oppenheimer-Crawford oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 20:15:58 UTC 2016


It referred to Dominic as being born in "Poopytown"
Also referred to one Jordan of Sexy (instead of Saxony)

It's great for its lists of actual reliable sources, of course.

On Aug 26, 2016 5:08 PM, "Scott Knitter" <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>


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