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ScottW wrote:

On Jun 22, 6:29*am, RapidRonnie wrote:
*I have no desire to fool with it personally but this page contains
significant errors.

I think the life of Wikipedia is coming to a close.

http://news.scotsman.com/education/F...med.4209408.jp

Several further education institutions have already banned students
from using the interactive encyclopaedia. At one college in Vermont in
the US, a history professor found several students repeated the same
error in exam papers. On discovering the information came from
Wikipedia, the college outlawed its future use.

Ms Coner said overuse of the internet also meant students did not
develop interpretative skills.

She said: "Pupils are in danger of believing what they read. It's part
of our short-cut culture, where we will do anything to pass a test,
without properly engaging with the information or questions that are
being asked.

"It's all very well to glance at a website for research, but you have
to check what you are reading is correct. Anything can be untrue. I
can claim to be a world expert on anything if I set up a website on
the internet."

and here we have a funny tip into the secret identity of the famed RAO
writer, George.

"LAST week I heard the writer Colin Bateman describe how, on looking
himself up on Wikipedia, he was dismayed to discover that his young
son had gone online and added the sentence: "Mr Bateman is currently
suffering from penile dysfunction." Fortunately his dad saw the funny
side * and was proud his child could spell "dysfunction" correctly.

Who else would be proud of this?

ScottW

All true. Most of our profs don't allow Wiki as a quoted source either.