[H]owever closely a Wikipedia article may at some point in…

[H]owever closely a Wikipedia article may at some point in its life attain to reliability, it is forever open to the uninformed or semiliterate meddler.

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Critique given by former Encyclopædia Britannica editor Robert McHenry in a frequently cited 2004 piece The Faith-Based Encyclopedia

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