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Re:I bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, a... by bamfly on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:22PM (#36262786)
> Thousands of articles that only barely scratch the surface on the topic.

Same as the Web. My experience has been that more often than not I hit "buy/pirate a book" surprisingly quickly when I start to dig past what's on Wikipedia, which is often not that much. Usually something from a university press.

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Re:I bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, a... by thaumasiotes on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:39PM (#36263051)
Not only does Wikipedia have the same problem, they actively enforce it. If you try to add more detail, Wikipedia will reject your material on the grounds that they don't want it.
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Re:I bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, a... by bamfly on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:49PM (#36263205)
Not just Wikipedia—often, the rest of the Web doesn't have much more than Wikipedia does (sometimes less, when Wikipedia sources heavily from books), unless you count ebooks. And sometimes the book you need is print-only, even if it's fairly recent.
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