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What can be said for an encyclopedia that is sometimes right, sometimes wrong, and sometimes illiterate? When I showed the Harvard philosopher Hilary Putnam his entry, he was surprised to find it as good as the one in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He was flabbergasted when he learned how Wikipedia worked. “Obviously, this was the work of experts,” he said. In the nineteen-sixties, William F. Buckley, Jr., said that he would sooner “live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.” On Wikipedia, he might finally have his wish. How was his page? Essentially on target, he said. All the same, Buckley added, he would prefer that those anonymous two thousand souls govern, and leave the encyclopedia writing to the experts.

In The New Yorker (2006):

Picture of the day Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (born 12 December 1948) is a Portuguese politician and academic. He has been the 20th and current president of Portugal since 9 March 2016. As a member of the Social Democratic Party, he previously served as a minister and parliamentarian in the Assembly of the Republic. This photograph of Rebelo de Sousa was taken in 2017 at Web Summit, an annual technology conference held in Lisbon.Photograph credit: João Pedro Correia

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Suggested citation styles

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• News article:

Andersen, David; Witter, Lameen. [ADD WEB LINK HERE "Former Marine, Go Daddy CEO Talks About His Rise to Success"], Marine Corps News, February 17, 2006. Retrieved on June 2, 2006.

• Web site:

Hansen, James E.; R. Ruedy, M. Sato, and K. Lo (December 15, 2005). [ADD WEB LINK HERE GISS Surface Temperature Analysis Global Temperature Trends: 2005 Summation.] NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Retrieved on September 28, 2006.

• Press release:

Hollywood Foreign Press Association (May 25, 2006). "HFPA Announces Timetable for 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards". Press release. Retrieved on June 13, 2006.

• Journal:

Bailey, David H.; Borwein, Peter & Borwein, Jonathan M. (June 25, 1999), "The Quest for Pi", Mathematical Intelligencer (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) 19 (1): 50–57, ISSN 0343-6993

Centuries

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• Centuries and millennia
  • The second millennium was 1001–2000; the 1st century; the 17th century;
  • Use numerals for centuries (the 17th century), except at the start of a sentence; do not capitalize century.
  • Because expressions like the 1700s are ambiguous (referring to a century or a decade), they are best avoided.

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Useful reference links for school articles

• The Bunting & Lyon Blue Book gives substantial coverage of private schools (it covers 1,000 schools).
• Great Schools Web site reproduces data collected apparently as part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Noroton's First Rule of Wikipedia Researching: Always assume Wikipedia already has an article on it.

Other

• A nicely formatted list of schools: List of schools in Geelong

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Founder of this venerable institution:

		Ka-Ching Ka-Ching Citation of the Monied and Munificent Order of Wikipedian Patrons of Civilization
		Founder Roster of honor: EconomicsGuy II (06:09, 18 May 2008) For those who have been found to be: not only investing their time in Wikipedia, but also their cash for the further advancement of civilization through better-informed deletion discussions. More specifically, "for parting with your own monies to find out more about an alleged source of notability for an article" Meaningful boilerplate language of the award (for which everybody should duly be impressed): As a member of the M&M Order of the WPC, you are now authorized to bestow this same honor on any future Wikipedian who is willing to lay down cash for the same or similar purpose. I trust you will exercise your powers wisely, in the tradition of Lorenzo the Magnificent, who knew he couldn't take it with him. Live long and prosper! I salute you!