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Can a Numismatist Trust Wikipedia?
Coinosaurus
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Is there any good info on here? I see a lot of overviews of various topics, but not more detailed info like die variety analyses, etc. Coverage of population and auction data is minimal to none.
A lot of the articles seem to cite good sources, even if the actual info provided is suspect.
And it contains none of the saucy commentary that we tune in for here
A lot of the articles seem to cite good sources, even if the actual info provided is suspect.
And it contains none of the saucy commentary that we tune in for here
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I think that the Wikipedia people have tried to clean up their act to an extent, but when you proclaim to know something of everything, errors do happen.
Use it as a starting point in the journey to an authoritative source for confirmation.
No one can trust Wikipedia for anything.
Use it as a starting point in the journey to an authoritative source for confirmation.
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this is useful also.
http://www.coinfactswiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
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No one can trust Wikipedia for anything.
Use it as a starting point in the journey to an authoritative source for confirmation.
yeah, what he said.
Let that serve as an illustration!
The Wikipedia entry for Q. David Bowers used to have his first name as "Quincy."
Let that serve as an illustration!
Sorry, but I have no idea what his first name is. Your illustration is falling on blind eyes here.
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The Wikipedia entry for Q. David Bowers used to have his first name as "Quincy."
Let that serve as an illustration!
Sorry, but I have no idea what his first name is. Your illustration is falling on blind eyes here.
"Quintastic."
The Wikipedia entry for Q. David Bowers used to have his first name as "Quincy."
Let that serve as an illustration!
Sorry, but I have no idea what his first name is. Your illustration is falling on blind eyes here.
Make it easy on yourself. Just think of him as "Q", like the MI-5 gadgetry wizard for Agent 007.
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a. Quatrefoil
b. The Quashington Quarter
etc.
Dennis - this sounds like an NLG Banquet bit- what does the "Q" in QDB stand for?
a. Quatrefoil
b. The Quashington Quarter
etc.
Ha! I like it.
c. Quagga
d. Quetzalcoatl
e. Quixote
Up until circa 2002 it actually said coins made after 1965 weren't collectible and it still says pyramids mustta been built with ramps.
Search engines wouldn't be as important if not for wiki.
Yes. You can trust everything you see on the Internet, especially content created by unpaid, uncredentialed individuals.
and during WW2 he joined the German Army and was promoted to a commander of a Tank Battalion and after the War
he became a Russian Spy and that later in life he retired to hunt sharks in New England...............They fixed it though
Steve
this is useful also.
http://www.coinfactswiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
I've posted coin related material on Wikipedia but haven't on CoinFactsWiki yet. Wikipedia uses the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, but CoinFactsWiki doesn't list what license they use. When it first came online, I asked about the license used here but haven't received a response yet.
if you think you can believe everything you read, think again. the internet is no different in that respect than a book, newspaper, or literally anything else you can read. (pun intended).
as for wikipedia as a source in a bibliography...i would not use it. however, as a starting point for getting information on just about anything, i would. sources are only as good as the source itself, and a primary one is best.
i love wikipedia, but i take things on there with a grain of salt too. they are just a small part of the big picture of any subject.