On 11/17/05, Tom Cadden <thomcadden(a)yahoo.ie> wrote:
It comes down to the simple option: amateurishness or
professionalism. You may think an amateurish make-it-up-as-you-go-along approach is OK.
Many on Wikipedia find it Wikipedia's biggest flaw. Accuracy is not "making the
English Community" it is knowing what you are doing. Frankly what you seem to hold up
as a model is 'WikiIncompetence', You don't seem to have noticed that
Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopædia, not a tabloid. Encyclopædias have standards
and if Wikipedia wants to be respected as a source book and not become an internet joke it
has to have standards. Just because you have problem with definitions, professional
organisation and encyclopædic standards does not mean that everyone has.
Get this: Wikipedia is no less respectable for using the French name
than for using the English one.
And please turn automatic line breaks on in your email program.
--
Sam