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Default Wikipedia - do you use it?

On Sep 21, 12:40�pm, Steve Slatcher > wrote:
> I use wikipedia quite a bit and would trust it just about as much as I
> would trust anything else, i.e. with a fair degree of scepticism. �I
> try to judge from the general style and standard of the article, and
> if the information is important to me I would always try to find a
> corroborating source. �At least errors in wikipedia are easy to fix.
> Dead tree sources may as well be tablets of stone when it comes to
> correction, and even blunders on non-wiki websites can be difficult to
> get corrected. �
>
> I have corrected errors in wikipedia on a number of occasions - always
> things that are clearly wrong and easy to correct - I have not written
> any substantial pieces of text myself. And I would strongly urge
> others to make corrections. �It annoys me when I read someone
> complaining in some forum or other about specific errors in wikipedia,
> when they could have fixed the article themselves in less time than it
> took them to complain.
>
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> Steve Slatcherhttp://pobox.com/~steve.slatcher


Similar to my feelings. I occasionally fix obvious mistakes. I don't
regard anything as definitive, but it's a source (and better articles
offer references).