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You and Mr. Wienchek have confirmed my thoughts on Wickipedia. The first
time I visited the site in researching a project and saw that anyone could
edit the information a red flag went up.
Harriott Lomax
From: "Stephan A. Schwartz" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] "Americans" and Wikipedia
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:21:01 -0400
>I am active on three lists in three quite different disciplines, and every
>person, on every list thinks Wikipedia is garbage, based on their survey of
>it, in the areas where they have competence. That has certainly been my
>experience. Like Henry I have corrected mistakes, only to go back and find
>them retro-"corrected" into error. Often on the simplest, and most solid of
>facts. Henry's comments were polite.
>
>-- Stephan
>
>On 13 Apr 2007, at 23:33, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>>oh, it's a good thing many of you all have your "advanced" degrees so you
>>can make fun of them.
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>>J South
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