[BKARTS] Wiki credibility

[Lee Churchill <leec@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Last year, I read a critical article in a well known magazine that 
argued the Wikipedia could not a true creditable reference such as an 
Encyclopedia. 

>>I also read an article last year on wikipedia,
http://news.com.com/Study+Wikipedia+as+accurate+as+Britannica/2100-1038_
3-5997332.html

It's comparing Wiki to the Encyclopedia Britannica, they compared error
rates with Wiki having an average of just under 4 errors per article and
EB having just under 3 which doesn't sound much worse to me. 

HOWEVER!

A far to extensive stay in University taught me that once you are out of
your second year undergraduate you should never use any general source
material anyway - ditch the encyclopedias, compendiums and survey texts!
In eight years, the last four of which wiki was available, every
professor I had lived by that rule, even having such material in my
bibliography was circled.  

I personally think Wikipedia is a great resource, but I am sorry they
are thinking of cutting you Jules and hope that they reconsider. 
 

Lee. 

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