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{{cquote|Nowhere else in the world can you find as good an overview of the life and work of Guy Davenport, the MacArthur Award essayist, draughtsman, painter, essayist, and author of distinguished postmodern fictions, as can be found at Wikipedia. Within a very short time of his death in 2005, a few knowledgeable people took a stem and turned it into a superb entry worth of the best encyclopedia. Certain myths and misperceptions kept creeping in to the entry, but gradually the demonstrable facts won out and the entry settled down. |
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Watching and participating in that process of revision, questioning, improvement, and debate gave me enormous respect for the Wikipedia approach. |
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As a consequence, Wikipedia is now the first place I go for fact checking. Rarely do I encounter factual errors in a Wikipedia article, though sometimes things are still clearly evolving and have not yet reached the level of clarity we all hope for. |
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Still, overall I trust Wikipedia to give me, at minimum, an excellent starting place when I need the answer to almost any question at all. |
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A stunning accomplishment!}} |
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{{cquote|Being a writer of learning material, Wikipedia means a world to me. All the biographies of famous and less famous people as well as other bits and pieces have made my work so much easier. Not to talk about the royalty free photos and pictures! Thank you, I hope you can keep on with your noncommercial work because you are irreplaceable. }} |
{{cquote|Being a writer of learning material, Wikipedia means a world to me. All the biographies of famous and less famous people as well as other bits and pieces have made my work so much easier. Not to talk about the royalty free photos and pictures! Thank you, I hope you can keep on with your noncommercial work because you are irreplaceable. }} |
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Wikipedia is Changing Lives
Here are just a few of the amazing stories that our users shared with us. We thank them for their willingness to tell their story about Wikipedia.
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