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>>>>A similar thought occurred to me, too. If an awards list that is given as a standard reference by a reputable source allows any Tom, Dick, or Fyodor to edit it, how reliable is it really? What's to prevent someone with self-esteem issues to add themself, or someone with an axe to grind to erase a name?
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>>>Wikipedia works really well too. Seems crazy, but mistakes and/or deliberate misinformation tends to get caught and corrected. There is some big social commentary in there somewhere ;-)
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>>For a while I was skeptical about Wikipedia, as I suppose many others were as well, and have come to trust it pretty well. One reason is there are a huge number of people minding the store. My faith in errors getting caught and corrected in a far smaller community like the FoxPro Wiki is not as great.
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>>Did you see that Microsoft finally pulled the plug on Encarta? The reason was the Wikipedia, Google, and other online tools basically made it obsolete.
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>Do you have out on StackOverflow much? They are user moderated also. It seems to work well but like any online messageboard you have egos get in the way. I had problems with one of those on there because I pointed out a slight error in his code. You don't get the noise that you get on UT, and the answers are usually prompt and high quality.

I have not, but just bookmarked it to check out.