On 2/12/13, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On a meta-philosophical point, would you be able in the ten minutes
you had available be able to check if what you were reading was in a
vandalised state or not, and would you have time to check the sources?
Seeing as it is the sources you need to read to verify what you are
reading... (no-one takes on blind trust what they read on Wikipedia
without checking the sources, do they now??).
Carcharoth
PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose to read had been
protected for years, or was in the middle of an edit war. Or that the
entire encyclopedia had been 'checked' and published and was
'finished'? Would that be a cause for celebration or not? OK, I
suppose this is all missing the point of the question...