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This article is mostly fluff. There's garbage in encyclopaedias as well and little possibility of finding errata. It also teaches the kids that you should trust one canonical source of information, which is bad.

Teach your kids critical thinking instead.

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> It also teaches the kids that you should trust one canonical source of information, which is bad.

And teaching the kids to trust the source that cannot give them facts and changes the answer every time you ask the same question is good?

Teaching kids to run down citations when they need more detailed information more than makes up for possible shortcomings of Wikipedia (if any, in actual practice). The greatest value of Wikipedia is that it is a launching point. That wasn't an option with our family copy of the World Book Encyclopedia. And Brittanica isn't really any better.

He covers exactly this point you are making.

In fact that's largely the point of the article if you read more than the first few paragraphs.

True. But "he" is a "she".

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