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eru on Aug 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia is Losing Contributors

On the other hand, people in academia treat wikipedia as a good introduction, but shudder at the thought of using it to check facts.

ColinWright on Aug 4, 2011 [–]

I'm not saying it's what it is, I'm saying it's the attitude that seems to drive the mods.

But I give up. When so many people take what I say in a sense other than I intend, I know it's time to give up for the night. Clearly I'm not expressing myself very well, so I'm outta here.

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