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Originally Posted by sirbruce
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.
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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
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