[WikiEN-l] An expert's perspective - Tim Bray on editing the XML article

[wjhonson at aol.com]

Just the opposite.
We want experts to edit the controversial bits.
Do you really want a swarm of amateurs who have little-to-no basis in 
the field being the sole people editing the most contentious portions?  
That just sounds upside-down to me.

Will Johnson


-----Original Message-----
From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <abd at lomaxdesign.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, Aug 13, 2009 4:24 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] An expert's perspective - Tim Bray on editing 
the XML article










At 05:33 PM 8/12/2009, you wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Abd ul-Rahman
>Lomax<abd at lomaxdesign.com> wrote:
>
> > we might short-block [experts] quickly, if they do not
> > respond to warnings, but we would explain that we respect their
> > expertise and we want them to advise us.
>
>Nothing says "we respect your expertise" like a short-term block :o)

The short block is down the line from warnings for incivility. I'm
claiming we should expect POV-pushing from experts. So, unless it's
not controversial, experts shouldn't edit articles! As long as the
expert behaves, no problem. And experts sometimes have a lot to say.
No harassment for writing too much. Ahem. But talk page refactoring,
organization, lots of stuff to do....




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