On 11/17/05, Tom Cadden thomcadden@yahoo.ie wrote:
It comes down to the simple option: amateurishness or professionalism. You may think an amateurish make-it-up-as-you-go-along approach is OK. Many on Wikipedia find it Wikipedia's biggest flaw. Accuracy is not "making the English Community" it is knowing what you are doing. Frankly what you seem to hold up as a model is 'WikiIncompetence', You don't seem to have noticed that Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopædia, not a tabloid. Encyclopædias have standards and if Wikipedia wants to be respected as a source book and not become an internet joke it has to have standards. Just because you have problem with definitions, professional organisation and encyclopædic standards does not mean that everyone has.
Get this: Wikipedia is no less respectable for using the French name than for using the English one.
And please turn automatic line breaks on in your email program.
-- Sam