recent francophobic slur

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Sam Clements wrote:

> One of very few, in my opinion.  Wikipedia still receives my scorn.  They
> post articles which the average person take as gospel, even though they're
> contributed by well-meaning people who aren't necessarily scholars.  The
> scholarship is very deficient in my experience.
>
> Instantly available mis-information is worse than slow moving correct
> information.

When I praised "Cheese-eating Surrender Monkeys" as an example of
Wikipedia at its best, I did not mean to imply that there aren't many
examples of Wikipedia at its worst.

Fred Shapiro


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