On 8/22/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/21/06, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
My support for the whole endeavour, for one. The appearance of professionalism, for another. This thing looks like it was just a knee-jerk reaction to bad publicity.
There's no doubt, it *was* a knee-jerk reaction to bad publicity, but not a bad one. Calling it an experiment was a mistake, since everyone now expects introduction, method, results, analysis, conclusion, in that order. However, we haven't had any more Seigenthalers, and there's certainly no sign that anything has become dramatically worse. Maybe Wikipedia could have been "even better" than it is now, for the same time period? We could have been up to 1.6 million articles? Who knows.
Steve
Have you ever considered the possibility that there haven't been any more Seigenthalers is because the MSM is jaded with that sort of thing?
And that's a rather cavalier attitude to take about the possibility that we've shot ourselves in the foot to the tune of thousands and thousands of articles and possibly editors.
~maru