Why didn’t he just fix it?
By William M. Hartnett on Feb 22, 2007 in geekery
>A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source (NYT)
As the story quotes Jimmy Wales, they shouldn’t be citing encyclopedias of any kind. But, as one of what surely must be a rather limited pool of people with expertise on such an extremely specific topic with, let’s be honest, little practical application to the world in which most of us actually live, why the hell didn’t he just fix the offending entry?
