Re: [Phys-l] physics lessons from wikipedia

[chuck britton <cvbritton@mac.com>]

At 12:51 PM -0700 3/11/10, John Denker wrote:
> If you want to improve the wikipedia, delete this sentence.
> It probably won't stay deleted, but you can try.

The deletion has been done.
I hardly see why one would want to intentionally leave errors in a 
reference work - even as a test for students.
I trust that someone will let the list know when/if it is reinserted?

(I have had the personal experience of listening to a number of 
physics pholks who seem to take great pleasure in pointing out 
serious errors in the wikipedia. To the best of my knowledge, a 
correction is seldom, if ever, overridden. This could result in a 
topic being moderated, as are touchy political/social issues etc. 
Physics hasn't yet descended to this level of rancor.)