On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM, <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: > The other day I ran across what is perhaps for me, one of the most bizarre > situations with references I've yet to encounter. > > Webster's has produced a book.? I found it in some random Google books > searches I was doing on a subject.? It states certain facts and a few of them > I knew to be without evidence, which made me wonder where they'd come from.? > After a few minutes of scanning back-and-forth I realized that their source > citation, which is only cited as (WP) stands for.... Wikipedia. > > Checking the Wikipedia article on the same subject, that "fact" is no longer > present. > > I hope we can all see what horror Webster has now unleashed upon us, by this > act of intellectual graffiti, not to mention amateurish citation.? They need > to be taken to the woodshed. >
In this case, to be put on the blacklist of unreliable sources. Oh the circularity! It hurts! Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
