David Gerard wrote:
Phil Boswell (phil.boswell@gmail.com) [050513 18:42]:
Unless I'm very much mistaken, the idea of constructing an encyclopaedia is to gather together crumbs of information that individually are not particularly helpful to construct a whole which is. There seems to be a group of people who are intent on pulling out the centre of the loaf, leaving just the crust which will then implode under its own weight. The attitude of "well I've never heard of him so he can't deserve an article" is entirely too prevalent and needs to be addressed before we turn into just a list of people *everybody* knows about already.
That's what I mean by "immune system turning into autoimmune disease".
I also find the argument that Wollmann's article was VFDed therefore we must purge all mention of him to be utterly unconvincing.
The add thing about this is that the article about Wollmann could be a vehicle for some objective facts in the matter. That's better than finding things piecemeal on the mailing list.
Ec