geni wrote:
On 1/13/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
I suggested something on another thread that stated that only people with background in a certain field should be qualified to judge notability.
Who determines someone's qualifications? I can claim to be an expert on any topic I like, that doesn't make it true.
You can establish your expertise through your participation in the relevant WikiProject.
After what happened with the WikiProject Alternative medicine I do not trust wikiprojects to be neutral. You also risk turning every wikiproject into something with internal politics matching Esperanza.
I can't comment on Esperanza because I have not been following that debate.
I do think it's wrong to extrapolate the experiences regarding Alternative medicine into all sorts of unrealated projects. In the present context all we would be asking them to do is to deal with alternative medicine topics. There may be contentious issues there, but I think it's reasonable to expect that both sides will remain more or less on topic.
The potential for every WikiProject to have it's own internal politics is certainly there, but why is that so bad? Is it really any better to throw these issues into a communal sewage treatment plant than a local septic tank? It might be easier to find a lost diamond ring in the latter.
Ec