View Single Post
Old 05-09-2009, 02:01 PM   #46
thibaulthalpern
Evangelist
thibaulthalpern ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.thibaulthalpern ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.thibaulthalpern ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.thibaulthalpern ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.thibaulthalpern ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.thibaulthalpern ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.thibaulthalpern ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.thibaulthalpern ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.thibaulthalpern ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.thibaulthalpern ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.thibaulthalpern ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 478
Karma: 451808
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: California, USA
Device: my two eyes, KLiiK, Sony PRS-700
Quote:
Originally Posted by sirbruce View Post
I will endeavour to do better; I may have adopted the tone as this is a sore point with me that I'm passionate about. But honestly I think (hope?) the discussion is largely over; anyone can google for information regarding Wikipedia's accuracy and reliability in relation to other sources of reference and decide for themselves.
Anyone who is going to be a good scholar and a good student isn't going to cite Wikipedia or any encyclopedia for their work. Yale University Library has a good few paragraphs on why not to cite Wikipedia. It makes points that I haven't yet pointed out here.

http://www.yale.edu/bass/writing/sou...wikipedia.html

And finally, I don't think it's sensible to engage with sirbruce in his arguments anymore about Wikipedia. He seems merely polemic and argumentative for the sake of being so, rather than engaging in good-faith arguments. To that I gesture with a
thibaulthalpern is offline   Reply With Quote