or: Certainly Wikipedia is more reliable than Giles Coren
> I sold my Encyclopedia Britannica when I got married, as no longer needed. > My wife knows everything. JJN is quite right. I think that those who disparage Wikipedia are > generally guilty of a form of intellectual snobbery- "I had to work hard to > acquire all my knowledge, why should it be made so easy for everyone > nowadays?" > In fact you need to know a fair bit to use Wikipedia effectively and check > its accuracy, so Giles shouldn't worry too much. Quite agree. This came up once before when Oliver Kamm wrote an article > disparaging Wikipedia. TOLsters argued with him and he retired from the > scene fairly quickly. James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > How about Ocaasi with that Wikipedia Library giant keyring of his? (: > > Pine > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> This does sound pretty good! I don't have access to the Times either, and >> asking around it seems not many do... >> >> On 16 December 2015 at 07:44, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The lead is promising, though much of the letter is paywalled. >>> >>> "Sir, I am — as he knows — an enthusiastic admirer of Giles Coren, but >>> he is badly misinformed about Wikipedia (“Why stop at Trump?”, Dec 12). As >>> a writer of history I resort to it at least a dozen times a day. I could >>> never have written my last two books without it, and I have never caught it >>> out yet, which is more than I can say of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Its >>> range is astonishing: it is almost impossible to find a person, place or >>> subject that it has left uncovered (end of my preview).... a work of >>> reference as useful as any in existence..." >>> >>> Thanks to Johnbod for pointing this out! >>> http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article4639798.ece >>> >>> Pine >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Social-media mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Joe Sutherland* >> Communications Intern [remote] >> joesutherland.rocks | @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | +44 (0) 7722 >> 916 433 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >
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