"Big Apple" & recent Wikipedia change

[Sam Clements]

Oh, sure.  Be logical.

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From: "Fred Shapiro" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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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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