[WikiEN-l] One reason why Wikipedia is not presently classroom-safe

BJörn Lindqvist bjourne at gmail.com
Sat Feb 19 03:12:04 UTC 2005


(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_dictionary)
> I listed it.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Donkey_punch
> 
> Although the article has only been listed for only two days, so far there
> is a 2:1 majority vote for keep.
> In my opinion this kind of article would render Wikipedia difficult to
> describe as "safe for classroom use"; also teachers recommending it to

Why? What is "safe for classroom"?

> younger children for homework research would be put at risk of censure
> because of articles like this.  Whatever those who voted think Wikipedia

Who would put them at risk?

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mvh Björn



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