[WikiEN-l] [[WP:V]] and [[WP:RS]] are destroying Wikipedia

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Wed Sep 20 06:52:25 UTC 2006


charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com wrote:

>Ray Saintonge wrote
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>>Claims about whether Wikipedia is reliable or unreliable are most often 
>>speculative. 
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>Wikipedia is unreliable. You can't settle a bet with Wikipedia. If you actually needed to buy Britannica in the past, you still do. The wriggle-room between 'unreliable' and 'useless' turns out to be so large we have shoehorned a multimillion-article reference site in there.
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So then, what is the most reliable way of measuring reliability?

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