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Wikipedia - Can Teenagers Write An Encyclopedia?
Global Politician, NY - 12 minutes ago
The vast majority of Wikipedia contributors and editors are under the age of 25. Many of the administrators (senior editors) are in their teens. ...
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The truth is that teenagers cannot do the referencing and research that are the prerequisite to serious scholarship - unless you stretch these words to an absurd limit. Research is not about hoarding facts. It is about identifying and applying context and about possessing a synoptic view of ostensibly unrelated data.

But "possessing a synoptic view of ostensibly unrelated data" would violate WP:NOR.
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Google News   Wikipedia - Can Teenagers Write An Encyclopedia? - Global Politician   Sun 22nd July 2007, 4:38pm
blissyu2   Wow. Perhaps the best article ever to have been p...   Sun 22nd July 2007, 6:27pm
LamontStormstar   The real problem with Wikipedia is what will happ...   Sun 22nd July 2007, 7:36pm
GoodFaith   The real problem with Wikipedia is what will happ...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 3:17am
Kato   This is a really good article.   Mon 23rd July 2007, 12:50am
GoodFaith   I submit that editors should be over age 21 and li...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 2:51am
thekohser   I submit that editors should be over age 21 and l...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 3:22am
A Man In Black   I submit that editors should be over age 21 and l...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 3:28am
GoodFaith   It seems like an obvious thing to point out, but ...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 3:46am
A Man In Black   This "anyone can edit" stuff just isn...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 4:07am
GoodFaith   [quote name='GoodFaith' post='38280' date='Sun 22...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 4:55am
A Man In Black   Wikipedia's success is solely due to hitting ...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 6:23am
Somey   Barring some sort of Diabolic Collusion between Go...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 7:04am
A Man In Black   That's looking at it too simplistically, I...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 7:32am
Somey   I'm not saying that this openness is entirely ...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 7:50am
A Man In Black   OK... But just so we're clear on this, how ar...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 6:52pm
GoodFaith   Wikipedia's success is solely due to hitting ...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 8:20am
Somey   Particularly the age thing; aren't you guys aw...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 4:51am
guy   I submit that editors should be over age 21 and l...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 11:59am
LamontStormstar   I submit that editors should be over age 21 and l...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 1:12pm
A Man In Black   This is Wikipedia's primary limitation, somet...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 3:08am
GlassBeadGame   At it's best, it can only be an executive su...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 3:14am
blissyu2   I think that the way that Wikipedia is designed le...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 6:29am
Infoboy   I think that the way that Wikipedia is designed l...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 7:51pm
Kato   Fuck you. That would discount 90% of the best ed...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 9:18am
GoodFaith   That would discount 90% of the best editors, al...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 10:23pm
Cedric   That would discount 90% of the best editors, a...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 10:54pm
Disillusioned Lackey   Let me correct myself: I submit that admins shoul...   Tue 24th July 2007, 11:07am
blissyu2   I think that that gets to the crux of the issue. ...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 9:19am
A Man In Black   NPOV is one of the major fundamental problems wit...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 7:25pm
GoodFaith   Let me correct myself: I submit that admins should...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 11:33pm
GlassBeadGame   Let me correct myself: I submit that admins shoul...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 11:41pm
Skyrocket   You don't have to be an actual teenager to hav...   Mon 23rd July 2007, 8:54pm

 

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