From: "James D. Forrester"
<james(a)jdforrester.org>
JAY JG wrote:
From: Dan
Grey <dangrey(a)gmail.com>
On 13/09/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But keeping unencyclopedic ones hurts Wikipedia
too.
Does it? How?
It reduces the credibility of the project.
In whose eyes? And why should we care what other people think of how
credible our project is in the short term? We're going to be here for
centuries hence.
One of Wikipedia's biggest issues has always been getting taken seriously as
an encyclopedia, or being accepted by educators as a reliable (or even
acceptable) source. Credibility is also the thing other encyclopedias (i.e.
Britannica) harp on. Credibility also brings donations and other kinds of
support and funding.
We can pretend it doesn't matter what people think of us, but if we do I
think we're sticking our heads in the sand.
Jay.