On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:42 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Good question. I just have this vague unease that it's becoming a _de > facto_ reference, and wanted to spend some cycles in clarifying my own > misgivings about it.
wikipedia is not authoritative, but it never claims to be. all articles that truly follow the community guidelines have more authoritative sources, which should be cited in place of the wikipedia entry itself (or use a specific version url for convenience, if there are many sources you want to cite that are all listed in that version of the wikipedia article). articles that don't have such sources are often flagged as being unsupported. stupidly enough, even the USPTO has cited wikipedia... -rishab
