Re: Is it a monopoly?
"They'll take the first paragraph and call it good."
And I don't see why that would be a problem. It means they only wanted a very general idea on a subject they probably knew nothing about, and they're not interested in the finer points; and again, there's nothing wrong with that, considering that in my experience the number of articles getting the general idea completely wrong is vanishingly small. One can safely go even further and assert that getting educated about the details of the subject is perfectly possible on Wikipedia, for the exact same reasons - mistakes, accidental or deliberate are far from unheard of, but are exceedingly rarely overwhelming the bulk of an article. It is only foolish to take _everything_ you read there as absolute truth - but hey, if you're citing Wikipedia as a source in your research paper you deserve absolutely all you gonna get...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
