[WikiEN-l] The boundaries of OR (contd)

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:43:48 -0800, "George Herbert"
<george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:

>It seems to me that part of this is the way we want to spin this.
>Yes, we all agree, we want good experts to come contribute and make highly
>technical articles better.
>No, we don't want to allow anyone including experts to slip unverifyable
>unreferenced stuff in, because we basically don't know for sure what
>anyone's qualifications are.

Exactly.  The only way to do it is to have *enough* experts that they
can point out the fringe ones when they turn up, and enough
non-experts to point out when the article is unintelligible.

>Policies which are good for soft sciences, history, etc, where anyone
>generally can read the source and understand it, are probably not a good
>match for hard ones where even the notations used are domain-specific and
>arbitrary.

I have a horrible suspicion that this is a gross oversimplification. I
am pretty sure there are areas of Balkan history that require both a
substantial amount of background research and a fireproof suit...

Guy (JzG)
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