On 10/7/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/10/2007, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
I template the hell out of articles that are inappropriate content but won't be corrected. The x-ray crystallography article, which requires an expert, not a bunch of physicists and mathematicians, shouldn't be the general article on the topic, it's written essentially about x-ray crystallography of bio molecules, and it looks exactly like what it is: a compilation of disorganized insights into the field without a retaining substance, like an outline.
You think templates will help how? Physicists and mathematicians are the closest you will get to experts. Chemists tend not to worry about the maths too much these days and biologists are no better (after all who needs the maths when the computer handles that side your job is to tell if what it is producing is halfway sane).
No, this isn't true, biologists need the math now more than ever. It's nice to think that you can do math without understanding it, but I do love being asked by PhDs to explain something to them because they don't understand it because they don't have the math background. I work in a technical field, and I produce results faster, more accurately, and in a more interesting fashion than the other technicians I work with who are clueless and limited by their math. And better results than the researchers who are also clueless and limited by their relatively low level math skills. It will be nice for me job wise if people keep thinking like you, but the literature we go through in discussions every day makes it absolutley clear that scientists and technicians need more math not less, and departments are upping the basic requirements for math. Grad students used to be able to get in without the math background, making it up in their first year or so--not the same case now.
The templates are to warn readers not to trust the content of the article for specific reasons.
There are some articles that shouldn't be on Wikipedia, and if I don't have time to correct them, and no one else will either, then I'm going to at least warn the readers that the article is a piece of crap in various ways. That's what the templates do. In fact, one of the first times I read an article on Wikipedia it came with a warning.
KP
NPOV the various fact dispute. maybe. {{expert}} I think not.
-- geni
I don't know what you're saying with this last sentence.
KP