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Re: Does Wikipedia provide false authority to our sound-bite society?

The fact is, no encyclopedia should ever be used for serious research. Not even the venerable Britannica - they are very general overviews of information, and are prone to small mistakes (to reiterate what has been said before - wikipedia and Britannica have very similar rates of problems.) As for feeding into a 'sound bite society', there has yet to be any actual discussion as to how Wikipedia, by providing information, can do that. It is not, to the best of my knowledge, biased, nor is it broadly lacking in information. A 'sound bite society' would be fed by biased news and/or news that was, in general, lacking a lot of information.


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