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Submitted by Paul Perry, Feb 18, 2008 23:52

It's unfortunate that Wikipedia gets picked on so much - it's a paradise of truth and light, compared to most of the commercially-based pages out there.
Indeed, I would use Wikipedia as a prime example of just how good humans can be; and the overwhelmingly high quality of the entries shows that - despite what one would gather from the mass media - the good guys have the majority.

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