Chris Remington

Volunteer amateur systems administrator for Beehaw. Stay-at-home dad. Outdoor enthusiast.

Bluesky: @beehaw.org

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  • Can you give an example of an article with an error that you tried to correct?

    This was 6 years ago so I cannot recall precisely which pages. However, I just skimmed over about 15 pages that I thought would be riddled with errors. To my surprise, I only found one instance where there was a ‘citation needed’ mark and could find no major errors…maybe a few little splitting hairs examples but nothing serious.

    So, it appears that improvements have been made over the past 6 years. On the other hand, I only looked over roughly 15 pages.

    Probably the same caution would be true for any encyclopedia. Namely, these can be pretty good starting points but not for serious scholarly research.