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might be viewed as crucial in the future c)judgements made on current information are subject to huge errors of ignorance, absence of availability of info, and bias d)people's time would be better spent researching and bringing in new information, rather than wasting time on debating whether to include or not. Each point could be buttressed with examples, but perhaps I should try to address the `Knowledge is not the white pages' or `Knowledge is not a data warehouse' argument. Those are true, but the reason is because very good and careful articles and information
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