[Foundation-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

Wed Mar 12 06:02:06 UTC 2008

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:47 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There is no acceptable compromise on advertising.
> [...]
>
As a librarian, I can say that the freedom from advertising is a major
> reason why an educational institution would tell people that there is
> some reason to trust wikipedia to be impartial, if not necessarily
> perfectly accurate.
> [...]
>

Your impassioned reply to my dispassionate discussion of adverts is stripped
of the context of my original e-mail on the subject. As I said earlier I am
against displaying them. I would not like to be construed as Mr. Ad Guy,
just the guy who was willing to discuss them with a cool head, thanks.

That aside, I'd like to see an example of an educational institution that
recommends their students visit Wikipedia because it is an impartial source
of information. A handful would really demonstrate the point.

Cheers,
Brian