Wikipedia uses me as a source – reliable?
I just noticed that the Wikipedia entry on the Streisand Effect links to a London Free Press article I wrote on the subject as the first footnote.
So does this advance the notion that Wikipedia is unreliable because it uses dubious sources, or the notion that it is reliable because it uses authoritative sources? I’m not sure I want to know the answer to that one!
The scary thing that working on Wikipedia taught me was that most other sources are about as reliable or unreliable, ‘cos they’re all just written by people. Hopefully doing their best.
There’s never a substitute for critical thinking!
Comment by David Gerard — September 19, 2008 @ 6:32 am