QUOTE(Amarkov @ Sat 22nd March 2008, 8:13pm)
The thing is, most sites with user-contributed content are forums like this. They don't present random people's statements as encyclopedia articles. These sites say "this is a forum, on which users say things; they may or may not be accurate".
Wikipedia bills its articles as an encyclopedia, and that should not be done without someone who has said "yes, this information is accurate". Nor without someone who is responsible when the information is innaccurate.
Well, ya, except that Wikipedia DOES have a
disclaimer... it's linked from every page, right at the bottom, so presumably people do read it. In the disclaimer it says, in giant letters no less:
WIKIPEDIA MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITYThat doesn't mean that things known to be wrong should be left, but still... you were warned.
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