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Should journalists use Wikipedia?

Monday, 7 January 2008, 09:01

In yesterday’s Independent on Sunday, reader’s editor Michael Williams looked askance at journalists’ use of Wikipedia to confirm disputed facts.
After surveying the usual pro- and anti-Wikipedia arguments, Williams concludes by reading the entries about the Independent and Independent on Sunday “a subject I ought to know something about.”
“After the first 10 errors, I stopped counting. [...]

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