[WikiEN-l] Are phone books reliable sources?

Fri Jun 2 11:33:09 UTC 2006

On 6/2/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> I essentially agree.  Some people still argue that Wikipedia itself is
> not a reliable source.  On the other hand "Scientific American" for this
> month used [[Sudoku]] as a reference in an article on the same subject.

A good example - it depends how you use Wikipedia whether you would
call it a "reliable source". If it makes a definitive, unsourced
claim, I would not call it reliable. If it provides the source further
upstream, and you check them out, it's a very useful source.

>
> Diferent sources will have different levels of reliability for different
> types of information.  It's ultimately up to the user to exercise
> critical thinking in making such evaluations, not us.

Yep.

Steve