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

Sat Feb 19 03:46:18 UTC 2005

Parents and school administrators and especially in the United States, local
school boards. A teacher who allows their students free access to Wikipedia
is a fool.

Fred

> From: BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com>, English Wikipedia
> <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 04:12:04 +0100
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] One reason why Wikipedia is not presently
> classroom-safe
> 
> (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?
> 
> -- 
> mvh Björn
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