Delirium wrote:
Michael Snow wrote:
Dealing with the recent Nature study, for
example, is it more neutral
to throw in out of the blue that "Wikipedia is almost as accurate as
Britannica" or would something along the lines of "Britannica remains
more accurate than Wikipedia" be better?
Well, to stick to sourceable claims in the form of direct quotes, we
could say:
-- According to the journal _Nature_, "Wikipedia comes close to
Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries"
[
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html].
That's probably much better because it leaves it to a neutral third
party to make the comparison. But does any such comparison need to be
in an article about EB? There is no doubt that writing about Wikipedia
is encyclopedic, but it's too easy to fall into the trap that people
writing their own biographies fall into.
When it comes to the article about Wikipedia maybe we should ask several
outside editors to write it, ensuring that a variety of POVs are
represented. The resulting set of articles could be relatively uneditable.
Ec