On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipedia@zog.org wrote:
Diffs or it didn't happen!
Have the folks on the lists forgotten how to use contribs:
You can easily find examples in Phil's contrib history. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tori_Amos&diff=prev&oldid=...
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
You're right, but so are they. Scholarly works in this field are just opinion, sophisticated opinion, but still, just opinion.
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But thats, arguably, all anything is.. Some opinions are more widely held, or are held by more credible or identify people.
Academic citations in Wikipedia are reasonable and should be expected. Peer reviewed works are going to, on average, be of greater quality than blogs or mass media. Without a careful analysis of the situation and with my experience with Phil's good judgment on these kinds of issues, I'm inclined to support him.