[ANSTHRLD] Wikipedia

[Mike C. Baker]

Addendum:
I swear upon a tall stack of appropriate religious material that I composed 
the following, previously sent, email *BEFORE* reading the quote from the 
LOAR...

Adieu, Amra / ttfn - Mike / Pax ... Kihe

Mike C. Baker
SCA: al-Sayyid Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra, F.O.B, OSCA
"Other": Reverend Kihe Blackeagle PULC (the DreamSinger Bard)
Opinions? I'm FULL of 'em
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike C. Baker" <kihebard at hotmail.com>
To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA,Inc." <heralds at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Wikipedia


> If I may offer a slightly disputative alternative to HE Robin's analysis:
> Wikipedia is still a source -- for tertiary / guiding / preliminary 
> material, with an expectation and "logical requirement" to not be the 
> *only* citation used.  Individual articles at a fixed point in time may 
> indeed prove to be fabulously useful in a given research, just as the same 
> article at a second point can be demonstrated as a complete fiction due to 
> later "helpful" revisions. To the extent that they lead us to previously 
> unknown and more readily provable resources, Wikipedia articles can be 
> "priceless".
>
> As a monolithic source, say no to Wikipedia.  As a potentially useful 
> collection of sources yet-to-be-proved, I will hold that there is worth in 
> even a false map, if we can but determine the manner in which it was made 
> to be false.  (Paraphrase from a source I just can't directly remember at 
> this instant:  know a man's truth, and you know only half the man; know a 
> man's lies, and he reveals himself completely.)
>
> Adieu, Amra / ttfn - Mike / Pax ... Kihe
>
> Mike C. Baker
> SCA: al-Sayyid Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra, F.O.B, OSCA
> "Other": Reverend Kihe Blackeagle PULC (the DreamSinger Bard)
> Opinions? I'm FULL of 'em
> alt. e-mail: KiheBard at hotmail.com  OR MCBaker216 at cs.com
>   Buy my writings!:   http://www.lulu.com/WizardsDen
>   http://www.livejournal.com/users/kihebard/
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jay Rudin" <rudin at ev1.net>
> To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA,Inc." 
> <heralds at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Wikipedia
>
>
>> Once you think it through, it becomes clear why Wikipedia cannot be used 
>> as a source.
>>
>> That's because it isn't a source.  It's millions of sources, some 
>> competent and some not competent, gathered together with no clear, 
>> consistent rules or editing.
>>
>> You can use a source if it's been proven to be consistently correct. 
>> Wikipedia isn't a single source, and has proven *not* to be consistently 
>> correct.
>>
>> Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin
>>
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