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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:58:30 +0200
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On 29.06.11 09:36, nmm1@cam.ac.uk wrote:

> Yes, precisely.  And the same applies to topics that are not often
> regarded as controversial, because a particular dogma is claimed to
> have been proven.  In those cases, Wikipedia's references just refer
> to more prestigious papers that spout the same dogma.

Well, yes. It's always been like that. Just browse a prestigious
ecyclopaedia from the 1930s and look up "race".  What do you find?

> The better encyclopaedias are a bit better in this respect, and
> usually refer to the original sources when they exist.

Which is what Wikipedia does try to do in the case of 8bit
µcontrollers.