[Wikipedia-l] NYT to forbid use of Wikipedia as a reference?

Thu Dec 8 14:55:43 UTC 2005

What about using more than one source - common sense surely?

Anyway sod the NYT - the Guardian leader loves us ;)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1661567,00.html

Caroline/Secretlondon 

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Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] NYT to forbid use of Wikipedia as a reference?

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Anthony DiPierro stated for the record:

> I don't understand why people are taking offense to this in the first 
> place.  In my opinion, *of course* the New York Times shouldn't be 
> using Wikipedia to check information.  Is someone here suggesting that 
> they should?  It seems to me like a ridiculous proposition in the 
> first place.
> 
> Anthony

So should anybody, anywhere, be using Wikipedia for any purpose?

If so, then why are the editors at the New York Times "of course"
different from those that should?

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 sean at epoptic.org | businessman before this lunacy.
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