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Originally Posted by Hitch
But for the life of me, I cannot figure out if he wants the *&%$#@! embedded links that he has, in his ms, to his PRIMARY RESEARCH RESOURCE (yes! yes, you guessed it--WIKIPEDIA!) displayed as embedded links, or not.
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Wikipedia as Primary Research Resource is an automatic fail here.
A few years back, I attended a panel on writing at the New York Comic Con, and panelist Tamora Pierce, bestselling YA noveleist said "By all means look at Wikipedia, but it should
not be the
only thing you look at." She was spot on.
I'll point people at Wikipedia articles where I have enough subject knowledge to consider them accurate. Subjects with independently verifiable facts and figures are reasonably safe. Anything subject like politics and religion goes downhill fast, unless you are amused by watching partisans deface each other's posts.
And I'll avoid the company of anyone who thinks Wikipedia is the sworn on gospel. (Sworn
at would be a better descriptor.)
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Dennis