On 14 April 2012 20:45, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > I would suggest that the critique rests on a highly questionable > assumption, namely that if Wikipedia were not there people would pay > journalists to write the stuff that Wikipedia provides. Given that > when I'm creating new articles about topics, there's often a real > shortage of sources by the paid writers and journalists and I often > have to delve far into obscure archives to locate such sources, the > whole critique is ridiculous: Wikipedia is providing articles on > topics journalists and other paid writers never talk about because > there is no commercial market for material on that topic.
And further: ask said journalist when they stopped using Wikipedia as a backgrounder. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
