Re: Citation needed
The problem is the circular nature of wiki edits (particularly in conjunction with newspaper). That is someone adds a 'fact' to a wiki article. Another website (particularly lazy journalists) will quote that 'fact' and then someone updates the wiki with that site as a supporting 'reference'. With no clear indication of dates and sources how can people effectively judge references? If you find 10 other websites (or even books) quoting the same fact that doesn't make it true if they all used wiki as their original source, but there is no way to determine that. This is particularly bad that people think news papers should be trustworthy (particularly given they do regularly do original research on events) and certainly would assume books published by university press are reliable.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
