Rob wrote:
I'm sorry, but if you don't think that the assertion that someone was involved in both the JFK and the RFK assassination is not some sort of lunatic fringe claim that at least deserves some sort of cursory verification, then I don't think the suggestion that you should not be editing an encyclopedia is all that outrageous.
Heh, I guarantee you that I could create a ichthyological whopper, pun intended, with pictures and citations from some of the rarer books in my personal library, and it will slip right by you, plus everyone else who doesn't happen to have those books to check. I bet I could even get it into the day's DYK!
But if you don't know enough to evaluate, say, the plausibility of an article about the popular home aquarium fish Melanocetus, I'm not going to take that as evidence you should not be editing the encyclopedia; it just means that no one person can know enough to be able to make accurate quick judgments on each new article. We need better teamwork, not just individual prowess.
Come to think of it, why didn't *you* personally catch the bogus Seigenthaler article? Seems like it should be right in one of your areas of special knowledge, right? And don't you RC patrol?
Stan