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The Wiki revolution stops here

07.02.07 Philip Jones

Last month the history faculty at Middlebury College, a small, high-minded, high-priced institution in woody Vermont, voted to ban undergraduates from citing Wikipedia in their research papers. Writing in the Guardian, John Sutherland asks if the site is just for lazy students, or is really at the forefront of an academic revolution.

"This is a subject on which academics are unusually unanimous. Wikipedia is useful - and in some areas, such as just-happening literature and history, uniquely so. But it's also treacherous, and frequently unbalanced. God invented editors for a reason."

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