on 8/19/07 4:22 PM, Ian Woollard at ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
I think that domain experts should be paired with wikiexperts; that way the wikiexperts can hand-hold the domain experts around the wikirules, and help revert unreasonable edits by others.
There's a seed here; something to be seriously considered.
I ask this with my tongue partially planted in my cheek: If a person, recognized as especially knowledgeable in a field, makes an edit to a article in that field, then cites their own texts as sources, would this be acceptable to the Project? Do you see what I¹m getting at? Who would Einstein have cited?
Lorentz; or other people that have studied Einstein. Push came to shove he could ask somebody notable to write something about it and then reference it ;-)
Einstein was the only person capable of giving Einstein an argument. Can you imagine reverting him! :-)
-- -Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly imperfect world things could be a lot better.
I love this! Thanks.
Marc