Wikipedia?
Edward Dolan
"As long as you are fond of Wikipedia, you can verify that with them, Ed."
I regularly resort to Wikipedia in order to get brief bits of information. I
do not find it at all bad. Some of the most respected sources of library
information are far worse than Wikipedia. I am now speaking as a former
college librarian who thinks many scholars are total idiots.
On the whole, I think an open source community is for the best. We do not
want experts always telling us what is what. They know far less than what
they purport to know. If you follow the sources on Wikipedia, you will see
that it is being reviewed constantly. I have read articles in world renowned
encyclopedias that have sent me into orbit they were so dumb. Let us not
have too much respect for academic scholars.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
!Jones
Dolan" <edo...@iw.net> wrote:
> If you follow the sources on Wikipedia...
As a secondary source, it's actually a fairly good one. If one wants
to know in what year did Colombus sail the ocean blue and that's all,
then it's quite good. If one wants to know why or how he felt about
it, then one will need to dig further; however, the bibliography in
Wiki is usually a good place to start. I dislike Wiki being cited as
an indisputable fact.
The bottom line is that I pretty much agree with you, Ed... you must
be a genius!
Jones
Edward Dolan
"!Jones" <sws...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Great minds think alike.
JimmyMac
> JimmyMac wrote:
>
> "As long as you are fond of Wikipedia, you can verify that with them, Ed."
Well, actuiually in response to your inane remark that ... "Women are
not our intellectual equals, but they are our emotional superiors",
what I wrote, but which you conveniently deleted in starting this new
thread was...
As usual, opinion stated as fact by the, intellectually challenged
HEAD Doaln. Disinformation is a Dolan trademark. According to Dolan,
women are angels ... just dumb ones, whereas according to the Guinness
Book of Records, the highest IQ ever recorded belongs to Marilyn vos
Savant ... dare I say a WOMAN!!! As long as you are fond of
Wikipedia, you can verify that with them, Ed
> I regularly resort to Wikipedia in order to get brief bits of information. I
> do not find it at all bad. Some of the most respected sources of library
> information are far worse than Wikipedia. I am now speaking as a former
> college librarian who thinks many scholars are total idiots.
>
> On the whole, I think an open source community is for the best. We do not
> want experts always telling us what is what. They know far less than what
> they purport to know.
Ed sure knows well how to paint a sefl-portrait, doe he not???
Edward Dolan
"JimmyMac" <jimmy...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Nov 29, 1:51 pm, "Edward Dolan" <edo...@iw.net> wrote:
> JimmyMac wrote:
>
> "As long as you are fond of Wikipedia, you can verify that with them, Ed."
>> Well, actuiually in response to your inane remark that ... "Women are
not our intellectual equals, but they are our emotional superiors",
what I wrote, but which you conveniently deleted in starting this new
thread was...
This thread is not about you or me, but about the usefulness and
trustworthiness of Wikipedia. I used your remark as an introduction to the
topic.
[...]
> On the whole, I think an open source community is for the best. We do not
> want experts always telling us what is what. They know far less than what
> they purport to know.
>> Ed sure knows well how to paint a sefl-portrait, doe he not???
JimmyMac purports to be a computer expert, yet he posts using Google Groups
and he does not use a spell checker. See what I mean about experts!
[...]
JimmyMac
> "JimmyMac" <jimmyma...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:5f41afc2-3918-4b53...@a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
> On Nov 29, 1:51 pm, "Edward Dolan" <edo...@iw.net> wrote:
>
> > JimmyMac wrote:
>
> > "As long as you are fond of Wikipedia, you can verify that with them, Ed."
>
> not our intellectual equals, but they are our emotional superiors",
> what I wrote, but which you conveniently deleted in starting this new
> thread was...
>
> This thread is not about you or me, but about the usefulness and
> trustworthiness of Wikipedia. I used your remark as an introduction to the
> topic.
> [...]
>
> > On the whole, I think an open source community is for the best. We do not
> > want experts always telling us what is what. They know far less than what
> > they purport to know.
>
> JimmyMac purports to be a computer expert, yet he posts using Google Groups
> and he does not use a spell checker. See what I mean about experts!
> [...]
Diversion duly noted. Ed purports to be humble, but enough said about
that. Use of Google Groups is my personal choice. Ed's personal
choice is a Microsoft newsreader client that has yet to master and
consequently he continue to screw up the posting hierarchy as has been
pointed out to him numerous times by numerous persons. Actually I am
a retired IT professional who has likely forgotten more about
computers than Ed will ever learn about them. I can spell better than
I can type, but I never claimed to be and expert typist. As Ed often
points out, even the best writers need an editor. I guess Ed just
volunteered.
Edward Dolan
> JimmyMac purports to be a computer expert, yet he posts using Google
> Groups
> and he does not use a spell checker. See what I mean about experts!
> [...]
>> Diversion duly noted. Ed purports to be humble, but enough said about
that. Use of Google Groups is my personal choice. Ed's personal
choice is a Microsoft newsreader client that has yet to master and
consequently he continue to screw up the posting hierarchy as has been
pointed out to him numerous times by numerous persons.
It is the Google Groups that is messed up. MS is mostly correct about
everything. I think you have to have a Ph.D. to even work in that
organization.
>> Actually I am
a retired IT professional who has likely forgotten more about
computers than Ed will ever learn about them. I can spell better than
I can type, but I never claimed to be and expert typist. As Ed often
points out, even the best writers need an editor. I guess Ed just
volunteered.
Why JimmyMac can't figure out how to use a spell checker in connection with
Google Groups is beyond my powers of comprehension. I think he is basically
lazy and does not want to do the research required.
But I agree with JimmyMac that we intellectuals can't type worth a damn. I
have always left that sort of thing to dumb females who seem to be expert at
typing. Like JimmyMac, I have spent my life on the higher things of the mind
and not on mundane tasks like typing.
Frankly, I would have more respect for Tom Sherman if he would occasionally
make a mistake in typing, but he never seems to. Folks who cross all their
t's and dot all their i's do not gain any respect from me.
JimmyMac is in fact an expert on computers and he will know more right now
than I will ever learn about computers if I live to be a hundred. He has in
the past helped me to get rid of pesky trojan horses which were fowling up
my computer. JimmyMac is a technological expert, but I am a cultural expert.
That is because I have read the complete works of Edward Gibbon and Arnold
Toynbee. But even though JimmyMac is a graduate of Loyola University in
Chicago, he seems not to have a proper regard for those of us who have spent
our lives reading scholarly books.