Abstract
Seismologists: Belar, Gutenberg, Fahim, Lapajne, Kanamori, Lehmann, Mercalli, Milne, Mohorovicic, Oldham, Sebastiao de Melo, Richter, Papazachos, and Varotsos http://en.wikipedia.org/ (downloaded 14 February 2006) Do you like this list of notable seismologists? If not, you have two options: Stroll to your nearest terminal and revise it, or categorize Wikipedia as untrustworthy and dissuade people from using it (or at least tell them to use it with great care). The purpose of this column is to convince you to select option one. If enough of us devote even a few minutes to reading and reviewing Wikipedia's seismology articles, we can all create a comprehensive and trustworthy source. In my previous column ( SRL 77:2), I mentioned that Nature had compared Wikipedia (the most popular online encyclopedia; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/) with other encyclopedias and discovered similar error rates. After further investigation of seismology-related topics in Wikipedia, I think that the Nature conclusions …
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