[WikiEN-l] in response to your article "Librarian: Don't use Wikipedia as source" in the Post-Standard

Mon Aug 30 19:09:15 UTC 2004

Point taken.
I was actually quoted out of context, but nevertheless:
My apologies for any inconvenience caused.
-- Jens

On 30 Aug 2004, at 07:10, wikien-l-request at Wikipedia.org wrote:

> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:19:22 -0700
> From: "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" <jwales at wikia.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] in response to your article "Librarian: Don't
> 	use	Wikipedia as source" in the Post-Standard
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Message-ID: <20040829161922.GD7406 at wikia.com>
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> Elisabeth Bauer wrote:
>> So please don't tell people "go and try" (they will suceed if they are
>> halfway intelligent) but tell them: "most people just don't do it,
>> that's why wikipedia works".
>
> I agree very strongly with this.  When I talk to reporters and this
> topic comes up, I specifically ask them *not* to do it, because it is
> very rude behavior, even as an experiment.
>
> --Jimbo
>