 In a 2004 piece called "The Faith-Based Encyclopedia", Robert McHenry, a former editor-in-chief of "Encyclopædia Britannica", stated that Wikipedia errs in billing itself as an encyclopedia, because that word implies a level of authority and accountability that he believes cannot be possessed by an openly editable reference.McHenry argued that "the typical user doesn't know how conventional encyclopedias achieve reliability, only that they do".He added