http://slate.com/id/2117942/ Paul Boutin on Wikipedia. I think this article is pretty much right-on: Wikipedia is wonderful, but it’s not perfect, and it should be cited with caution (if at all). Perhaps a variation of Groucho Marx’s “I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member” applies: when it turns out that I can make some sort of improvement to practically every article I read (and 90% of my edits do in fact correct mistakes of some kind that I would be horrified to find in a paid-for reference), I’m not inclined to think too highly of the source in question. Also, even if the Wikipedia ends up killing the Britannica (and it + Google probably will), this doesn’t make it better than the Britannica: it merely makes it more evolutionarily successful than the Britannica, which is quite another thing. 07:51
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