[Wikipedia-l] Britannica

Mon Jan 6 00:01:46 UTC 2003

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:52:07PM +0100, Lars Aronsson wrote:

<stuff about copyrights acknowledged>

In any case, when discussing the 1911 EB when it first became available
on the net, it quickly became clear that the material from it is 
totally unsuited for cut-and-paste into Wikipedia anyway.  Obviously 
much of it is totally out-of-date (read the article on "Calculating
machines" for amusing speculation on the possibility of a completed
Analytical Engine), the style is archaic, and even the stuff on historical
figures has been invalidated by later research.

Use it for source material (with a good deal of care), but I would strongly
argue *not* to cut-and-paste it in.

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