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Tessa Gengnagel, « The Quote That Never Was », parergon, ID : 10670/1.a2shlc
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About the Pitfalls of Wikipedia & Scholarly Misconduct. [1] Now, I'm sure that most people are aware that Wikipedia is somewhat unreliable. The same is actually true for traditional encyclopedias.(1) Mistakes happen - spelling errors, lapses in attention to some miniscule detail, misattributions. That's human. That's fine. Chances are that these errors will be found and corrected eventually and the proponents of Wikipedia argue, of course, that that's more likely to happen when the swarm int...