Reliability of Wikipedia mentioned that "Wikipedia is often criticised for its inaccuracy and bias, but in my experience the military history articles are spot on." In July 2008, "The Economist" magazine described Wikipedia as "a user-generated reference service" and noted that Wikipedia's "elaborate moderation rules put a limit to acrimony" generated by cyber-nationalism. Jimmy Wales, a co-founder of Wikipedia, stresses that encyclopedias of any type are not usually appropriate as primary sources, and should not be relied upon as being authoritative. Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch offered the following anecdote in his book "The Last Lecture". He was surprised that his entry to
Nigel Walker have corrected it on Wikipedia three times and it keeps coming back up. "It’s brilliant. The amount of people that ask me about it and I never applied and I certainly didn’t compete. It’s unbelievable." Nigel Walker Nigel Walker (born 15 June 1963) is a former Welsh track and field athlete and Wales international rugby union player. He is currently National Director at the English Institute of Sport (EIS). He was born in Cardiff. Walker represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the 110 metres hurdles. In 1992 however, he failed to make the squad