"grusl" wrote in message
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On Mar 25, 7:51 pm, "William Black"
wrote:
> "grusl" wrote in message
>
> news:9088937d-4ae3-4261-8a16-d52b47642cfd@s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>
> Wasn't there a recent survey that suggested EB and WP have
> approximately the same error rate?
>
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>
> Wikipedia has a vast swathe of articles about stuff where there is no
> controversy.
>
> When you've got a separate entry for every Startrek programme ever made
> and
> every home computer ever manufactured and just about every piece of
> software
> ever written your error rate is very low indeed.
>
> Vast amounts of Wikipedia isn't information you either want or need in an
> encyclopaedia.
>
It's not an encylcopaedia in the traditional sense. More a compendium
of random information. I suspect Indians are among the largest, if not
the largest, group of contributors now.
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Parts of Wikipedia relating to the history of India in the past hundred
years are best described as biased.
Some of it is just downright lies, although after a recent controversy the
articles relating to the 'Indian National Army' have all been toned down
somewhat...
This seems to relate to the need in modern India to have some sort of
'Liberation mythos'.
The reality, that India became independent because of the efforts of
Oxbridge intellectuals and clever lawyers (on both sides) is just not
acceptable anymore.
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
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