[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia not educational

Mon Apr 21 12:38:24 UTC 2003

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 06:03:51PM -0700, John Knouse wrote:
> My three cents worth (inflation, you know):
> 
> Any article in Wikipedia should present information in such
> a way that a person of average intelligence who's motivated
> to learn can interpret it and use it.
> education is absolutely necessary.  

Strongly disagree. *Wikipedia* should present information in such
a way that a person of average intelligence [etc]. *Articles* should
present information understandable to the layman where possible
*without making the article less clear and concise for somebody
reasonably educated in the general field*. 

Anything else leads to clutter in articles, and redundancy in
the wikipedia as a whole. 

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