" :Yours is a really nice, thought-through comment and I thank you for it. One of the systemic issues with Wikipedia is that it prefers secondary sources to those that are considered to be primary or tertiary. The Britannica falls into the tertiary category, and if I am honest even a fair few of the ""EB"" links (where ""EB"" is intended to mean that the content has been checked by an editorial board) seem to be distinctly non-scholarly. As a child, I was always taught that Britannica was it, but as a graduate student it became quite clear to me that things were not so simple. That was in the days when the web was just kicking off and I am afraid that, if anything, the Britannica web presence is
" :Yours is a really nice, thought-through comment and I thank you for it. One of the systemic issues with Wikipedia is that it prefers secondary sources to those that are considered to be primary or tertiary. The Britannica falls into the tertiary category, and if I am honest even a fair few of the ""EB"" links (where ""EB"" is intended to mean that the content has been checked by an editorial board) seem to be distinctly non-scholarly. As a child, I was always taught that Britannica was it, but as a graduate student it became quite clear to me that things were not so simple. That was in the days when the web was just kicking off and I am afraid that, if anything, the Britannica web presence is not