On 10/18/05, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Guettarda wrote:
I see. So saying "obviously you support election fraud" would be appropriate too, and not "needlessly" inflammatory? Interesting.
I don't know how to answer this, except to say this. I have taught freshman composition at a respected university, focusing particularly on research. If one of my students handed me a paper that used those citations in that way, I would fail them.
What does that have to do with your decision to insult your fellow editors? I would fail students for submitting half of the articles in Wikipedia - but I would not tell them that they were bad people for submitting poorly sourced material. In fact, I'd be thrilled to have someone show some evidence that they were thinking, and not just repeating back to me what I told them.
More to the point though, since you brought up your experience teaching comp, wouldn't you fail a student for submitting an entirely off-topic answer to your question?
Ian