History of Wikipedia commentary/Making fun of Britannica

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	Revision 41 . . November 20, 2001 7:50 am by AxelBoldt
	Revision 40 . . November 20, 2001 3:43 am by Seb ["authorative" looked kinda bad, esp. in the first sentence...]
	Revision 39 . . November 20, 2001 12:21 am by AxelBoldt [See /Talk]
	Revision 38 . . November 19, 2001 2:18 pm by Josh Grosse [...we should stick to inaccuracies]
	Revision 37 . . November 19, 2001 2:17 pm by Josh Grosse [Making fun of Britannica for incompleteness is hypocritical, web m]
	Revision 36 . . November 19, 2001 8:19 am by AxelBoldt [+Cauchy sequence]
	Revision 35 . . November 19, 2001 8:18 am by AxelBoldt [+Cauchy sequence]
	Revision 34 . . November 19, 2001 8:17 am by AxelBoldt [+Cauchy sequence]
	Revision 33 . . November 16, 2001 6:47 am by AxelBoldt [uncertainty principle]
	Revision 32 . . November 16, 2001 6:43 am by AxelBoldt [uncertainty principle]
	Revision 31 . . November 16, 2001 3:12 am by AxelBoldt [+FFT]
	Revision 30 . . October 26, 2001 5:11 am by Taw [Big O article on wikipedia has been splited to 'notation' and 'anime' parts]
	Revision 29 . . October 26, 2001 3:57 am by AxelBoldt [leap year issue.]
	Revision 28 . . (edit) September 25, 2001 7:20 am by AstroNomer

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Changed: 1c1

People often claim that Wikipedia can never be as authoritative as Britannica. This page is here to exhibit mistakes and omissions in EB and how they have been corrected in Wikipedia.

People often claim that Wikipedia can never be as authoritative as Britannica. There can be no question that at the current stage, EB is vastly more complete and accurate than Wikipedia. This page is here to exhibit mistakes and omissions in EB and how they have been corrected in Wikipedia.

Changed: 9c9

In "number game" under "logical paradoxes" in EB it is claimed that the statement "All cretans are liars", if uttered by a Cretan, is self-contradictory. This is false; see Epimenides paradox for the correction. I sent a letter to the math editor of EB to point this out and received an answer three months later saying that his "sources" disagreed with me and considered the text to be correct.

In "number game" under "logical paradoxes" in EB it is claimed that the statement "All Cretans are liars", if uttered by a Cretan, is self-contradictory. This is false; see Epimenides paradox for the correction. AxelBoldt sent a letter to the math editor of EB to point this out and received an answer three months later saying that his "sources" disagreed and considered the text to be correct.