19 Oct
2007
19 Oct
'07
9:34 a.m.
jerzy.karczmarczuk@info.unicaen.fr wrote:
*PLEASE*, show me untrustworthy Wikipedia pages.
Any article on a disputed territory or open political dispute. Most articles on a controversial philosophy. Many articles on living people. I hope I don't have to give examples. Certainly I don't wish to discuss any of the above topics here. Fortunately, articles on mathematics have several virtues which make them less likely to subject to the problems which plague the above. There is a notion of objective proof, there is a wide peer-reviewed literature which can be used as references, there are a disproportionate number of wikipedians with mathematical ability to catch errors. Jules