As Encyclopedias Go, Wikipedia Stinks
Let us take note of someone who is absolutely central to the concept of an encyclopedia but who is hardly acknowledged at all by the Wikipedians. I mean, of course, the user. … The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him.
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Robert McHenry, former editor in chief, Encyclopedia Britannica
Pardon Our Porn Link
In Tuesday's, Wednesday's, and today's Tempo sections, the comic strip Prickly City contains a Web address that links to a pornographic site. In a statement released Wednesday, the strip's provider, Universal Press Syndicate, explained that at the time the strip was filed, the address was "fictional and satirical" and led to an unregistered site. "Regrettably," the statement continued, "this URL now leads to an adult site." The syndicate added that it is "reviewing its policy of running fictional and unregistered URLs within its content."
From the Chicago Tribune, Corrections and Clarifications, October 21, 2004
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