Philip Sandifer wrote:
It's unfair and insulting to the community to pop up and take us all to task for failing to deal with one case.
I did not take anyone to task. Quite the opposite. I have said many times in this thread that there seems to be no particular person to blame.
What do you want changed? What's your actual idea here?
One of my actual ideas is that "So what, we have 2 million articles" strikes me as not a very helpful approach to improvement. We don't look at the problem of heart disease by pointing out that almost everyone makes it through the day without dying of a heart attack.
The problem is systematic, widespread, and worth puzzling over in good faith without recriminations... particularly not for people who are merely pointing out that there is a problem and we need to take it seriously.
--Jimbo