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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 353734, member: 4626"]Well yeah, but that yahoo will be reverted within a matter of minutes if it's not well sourced. Heck, you should have seen how much sources I had to provide to support my correction that the woman that modeled for the Sacagawea coin was not the first or only person to be depicted on a coin while still alive. (Thomas Kilby and Calvin Coolidge were both on commems while still alive... if you extend the definition to people who posed as models and not depicted as themselves, there's actually many people who have held that honor). Irony was that assertion was contradicted by Wikipedia's own articles and I still got accused of vandalising because my edit contained a minor spelling error.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's not perfect but they have about as good a batting average as any print encyclopedia... and when a print encyclopedia makes a mistake it won't get corrected for at least a year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 353734, member: 4626"]Well yeah, but that yahoo will be reverted within a matter of minutes if it's not well sourced. Heck, you should have seen how much sources I had to provide to support my correction that the woman that modeled for the Sacagawea coin was not the first or only person to be depicted on a coin while still alive. (Thomas Kilby and Calvin Coolidge were both on commems while still alive... if you extend the definition to people who posed as models and not depicted as themselves, there's actually many people who have held that honor). Irony was that assertion was contradicted by Wikipedia's own articles and I still got accused of vandalising because my edit contained a minor spelling error. It's not perfect but they have about as good a batting average as any print encyclopedia... and when a print encyclopedia makes a mistake it won't get corrected for at least a year.[/QUOTE]
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