On 3/28/07, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 28, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
This is realistic, but accepts the premise that Wikipedia will always be second-rate, since "anyone can edit". And the premise that we cannot make and enforce policy with respect to regular editors.
I think you misunderstand the argument David is making here, which is along the lines of "if a reasonable person with knowledge of the topic of the article would be surprised to see something not mentioned, we should mention it."
-Phil
Ah the reasonable person. Can the man on the Clapham omnibus be far behind?
While as an aproach it has been shown to be kinda workable under some conditions on wikipedia rather lose things like that tend to just end up resulting in massively long arguments (see the Darwin-Lincon birthday issue).