QUOTE(Kato @ Sat 28th July 2007, 12:17am)
Take a look at the comments. One WP apologist named
sepluv (641107) writes
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In Wikipedia, appeals to personal authority don't work at all, unlike Britannica, which bases its entire approach on these. They are at either end of these extremes, and both work to some extent. Being in the middle would like not work at all.
What new nonsense is this? Yeah, Britannica's methods of employing numerous experts and fact checkers is "extreme" and worked "to some extent".
Yes, if you mean "has served as a beacon of scholarship for more than 200 years" by "extreme", then of course. (IMG:
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Here we see the full fruits of Slimvirgin's attacks on Daniel Brandt (and everyone else) - her past life is now be blasted around the world and she can't delete or ban the perpetrators.