Re: Viva Mexico! Hijos de la Chingada!

António Marques wrote:
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> Brian M. Scott wrote:
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> >>Why would you believe anything in Wikipedia? [...]
> >
> > Because overall it's a fairly decent reference work. This
> > doesn't mean that one should abandon one's critical senses,
> > but that goes for the Britannica, too.
>
> Wikipedia sometimes fails in 2 situations:
>
> . when a field is dominated by perspectives that otherwise are
> minority, they tend to smother any others out of existence.
>
> . on mainstream issues, unwarranted credit is given to some views that
> really deserve none, on the grounds that it's free speech.
>
> Both are symptoms of not being able to count on authoritarive advice
> on every area.
>
> Other than that, it's good and has been improving.

In the sense, I presume, of "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you
enjoy the play?"
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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