[UA] Re: Wikipedia (was Re: Dirk Allen)

[Bira]

Alexander Lampros wrote:


> The one time I searched for something I actually know something about 
> (Chinese History), I thought the entry was pretty shabby and somewhat 
> inaccurate. (They had one out of the five or six reasons scholars cite 
> for the downfall of the Qing empire.  What made it worse was that one 
> reason was "The westerners came in and fucked everything up."  Which is 
> sort of biased, not to mention very incomplete.)
> 
> So yeah.  Its a great tool, but check it with Brittanica if you can.

The great thing about Wikipedia is that, if you find the entry to be too 
  incomplete or muddled, you can get your hands dirty and edit yourself 
:). I've already read a few things over there, but I've never really 
dove into it.



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