On 9/11/07, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
on the other hand, people keep complaining about WP chasing away experts. Perhaps the WikiProject system is a good environment for expert retention.
Yes, we had an editor who wrote some brilliant prose on a difficult technical subject. She just left the project. People crapped out her prose so much that the crap they wrote was recently highlighted on a blog for the worthless crap it was. Meanwhile, she was an expert on a tough technical subject who could write intelligently and appropriately on that subject relatively for a layman and other editors chased her away. I was shocked at first, but realize I shouldn't have bean, after watching a superb copy editor get chased away in a ridiculous sock puppet frenzy attack--she was supposedly using IPs all over the world, how clever of her.
Damn those experts anyway.
KP