I’m not entirely sure why Wikipedia isn’t considered a quotable source of information in the academic world. As a refugee from that world, I find the idea of a Universal Repository of Knowledge very appealing, even when it’s overseen by a bunch of crotchety people who have made themselves the de facto arbiters of that knowledge. (Click on the View History tab of the next article you read to see just how pathologically crotchety these people are. It almost makesRead more