[Web4lib] Wikipedia vs Britannica

Broun, Kevin (NIH/NCI) [E] brounk at mail.nih.gov
Thu Dec 15 16:59:18 EST 2005


Maybe this is what you should have said in response to Creech, instead
of coming off like someone who resorts to vulgarity (in public) when he
doesn't have anything substantial to say.


ChuckO wrote:

> Really? John Creech posted a link that is essentially a personal
attack 
> on me after I posted that I didn't want to talk about specifics. He 
> posted a link to a decontextualized discussion that doesn't include my

> opinion or perspective. This is one of the chief problems with 
> Wikipedia. People supposedly know who I am, but I have no way of
finding 
> out who these other users are unless they use their real names.

> There is no accountability on Wikipedia. Anonymous users can post 
> anything about people and it all gets archived.


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