[WikiEN-l] Why Academics are Useful to Wikipedia

Mon Sep 13 07:23:49 UTC 2004

On 09/13/04 02:54, Daniel Mayer wrote:
> --- Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

>>I think that your stand on this is overly reactive, and not pro-active.  
>>These responses are a sign of success, not of failure.   Your reaction 
>>to the teacher and the librarian is premised on their being right.  

> When they say that they do not trust Wikipedia, will not use it, and will go so
> far as warn others from using it, then they *are* right about that. I do not
> suppose that their reasoning behind those actions and positions are correct. 

If you don't suppose they are correct, why do we need to throw a
spanner into the works of Wikipedia to mollify them? You haven't
demonstrated the burning need to follow a course of action you
here admit isn't actually necessarily justifiable.

- d.