"Big Apple" & recent Wikipedia change
Sam Clements
SClements at NEO.RR.COM
Sun Jul 23 01:38:20 UTC 2006
Oh, sure. Be logical.
sc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Shapiro" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: "Big Apple" & recent Wikipedia change
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
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>> This is another reason that I don't like the Wikipedia (besides giving
>> out scholarship for free).
>
> Isn't scholarship usually given out for free? The typical outlet for
> scholarship is scholarly journals, of which almost all are nonpaying. The
> other typical outlet for scholarship is scholarly books, which rarely
> result in more than nominal revenue.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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