[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's provable anti-expertise bias

[Ray Saintonge]

Bob Mellish wrote:

>It's funny, but I quite often create "expert" articles on subjects I'd bet
>that few wikipedians know about, or have even heard of (e.g.:<
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%27s_equation>). But I've yet to have one
>listed on AFD because they are ignorant of the subject, and I'm in no danger
>of being driven off. Perhaps there's more to the problem than just the
>"proud ignorance" of AFDers.
>
Incomprehension works in several ways.  Mathematics is widely believed 
to be a serious subject, and that may be sufficient to put them in awe 
of mathematicians. :-)  I doubt that they understand any of it.

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