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without wikipedia, I would have never learned of such devices such as these:
it has cured my problems.
it has cured my problems.
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A specifically political encyclopaedia.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
It depends.
For a paper in Government I needed to look up some semi-technical information about ICANN and DNS. Wiki is an appropriate source for that.
Similarly, if you wanted to look up Deontological Ethics, you would look in an Encyclopaedia of philosophy.
Wikipedia is meant to be a replacement for Britannica type publications: a broad repository of general knowledge for non-specialist purposes. It succeeds admirably at that. I often spend hours just clicking through Wikipedia links. Sure, there are some vandals (some of them hilarious), and there are some topics that POV warriors attempt to rewrite again and again (typically anything to to with Politicians, Indigenous Peoples, Israel, Jews and genocides) but you can at least read the talk page and see why there is a dispute.
Britannica presents controversial opinions as fact without giving you insight into disputes that lurk behind them.
Perhaps the best thing about Wikipedia is that it doesn't suffer from the snobbery of many professional encyclopaedias. You can find all sorts of stuff about popular culture (including all sorts of wonderful trivia: my favourite entry is the one on the heavy metal umlaut) and all sorts of other topics that would not be covered in other encyclopaedias.
You certainly won't get the endless information on kinky sex that Wikipedia has from Britannica. That's what a boy your age should be looking up, not crap like ICANN and DNS. Start acting normal!!!Only feebs vote.Comment
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There's something ironic about a prof of philosophy telling someone to act normal.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
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Did you submit the "George W Bush is a great man" article?Originally posted by DanS
The breadth of material on Wikipedia is much larger than from any other source. However, many of the criticisms against Wikipedia are valid.
It's a good first source.
Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?Comment
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good link lonestar 
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No no no. DNS = domain name system. ICANN = um... Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (got that from wiki!Originally posted by Agathon
A specifically political encyclopaedia.
) the domain name guys. It wasn't political information at all.
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I've seen that stuff tooOriginally posted by Agathon
You certainly won't get the endless information on kinky sex that Wikipedia has from Britannica. That's what a boy your age should be looking up, not crap like ICANN and DNS. Start acting normal!!!
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And I posted it before you.Originally posted by Agathon
Yeah I posted that link UR.
You boys are incredible."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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You said a government course, so I wondered what you were talking about them for.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
No no no. DNS = domain name system. ICANN = um... Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (got that from wiki!) the domain name guys. It wasn't political information at all.
Only feebs vote.Comment
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The paper was about the whole "omfg the UN is taking our internets" thing a while back.Comment
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DinoDoc pawned yet again.
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia that is compiled and updated by volunteers and has frequently had its accuracy called into question, is about as reliable as the Encyclopedia Britannica, according to a study by Nature.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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"Please not so fast."Originally posted by MOBIUS
Just wondering - does that translate as 'don't **** the children so fast'?
Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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It's damn funny - I once remember their piece on Jim Davidson and it described him as a 'deeply unfunny c**t' at the end
Speaking of Erith:
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Originally posted by Last Conformist
There's something ironic about a prof of philosophy telling someone to act normal.Comment
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Bitte nicht so schnell!Lime roots and treachery!
"Eventually you're left with a bunch of unmemorable posters like Cyclotron, pretending that they actually know anything about who they're debating pointless crap with." - Drake TungstenComment
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