Some institutions (e.g., religions, the news media) serve as arbiters in determining the "truth" status of a variety of issues of doctrine and fact. This article examines the routine "truth" producing activities of one such institution: an organization charged with assembling and publishing an encyclopedia. The articles that comprised this encyclopedia are shown to be products of various negotiations, bargains, and "creative uses of facts," all fundamentally shaped by practical features and constraints of this particular organizational setting.
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