RAR,

Hehe ... I think you are being too kind to Wikipedia by calling a weak but convenient source. I acutally do use it a lot, but then I also use about 15 other online sources simultaneously to cross-reference and verify what I find there. Trying to get undergraduates to spend that kind of time on their papers is a Sisyphean struggle every day, but we are making inroads. I recently did a bibliographic instruction class for an advanced history class and deliberately used both Google and Wikipedia to punch the prof's buttons ...then I explained WHY I'd used them. She loved it and got a good laugh. The students were delighted to see how you could use it positively. Their utter topicality is great; you just need to know how and when to filter the results.

Attribution is the cornerstone of scholarship, which provides the basis for history ... and that builds community.

Looking forward to seeing the new policy page.

Peace/Out,

AMdA