Vatican uses Wikipedia to compile cardinals' biographies - The Guardian Options

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Vatican uses [b]Wikipedia to compile cardinals' biographies[/b]
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Its ancient library holds more than 180000 manuscripts and 1.6m books, and it describes its Secret Archive, which packs priceless documents on to 85km of shelving, as "one of the most important research centres in the world". ...



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[Ottava]

I saw Wikipedia and the Vatican and I was afraid there was a sex scandal involving Commons. Thankfully, it was only people not understanding that Wikipedia Is Not a Reliable Source. Phew.

[mbz1]

I saw Wikipedia and the Vatican and I was afraid there was a sex scandal involving Commons. Thankfully, it was only people not understanding that Wikipedia Is Not a Reliable Source. Phew.

Even, if it were so, who cares? Commons and Vatican worth each other. A few users on Commons do not let to add a category anti-Semitic picture to anti-Semitic garbage that Commons hosts, and in Vatican the current Pope stated:

The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo’s doctrine. Its verdict against Galileo was rational and just.

In both places Tyranny of the Ignorant wins.

This post has been edited by mbz1: Tue 10th January 2012, 4:35am