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Re: Dear Wikipedia

Aug 6, 2011, 13:24

Sepharo

eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 6, 2011, 09:55:
A system like that is doomed to fail at some point, it'll be chock full of information... old information with proper yet old sources, while the up-to-date information can nowhere be found.

Are you sure you're not just talking out of your ass here? Generally "doomed to fail at some point" is a phrase that sets an alarm off that someone is just making something up. Maybe you'll give me a citation for the study/article that argues this point about old sources dooming a dynamic encyclopedia with 3,703,177 English articles.

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