On 1/19/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/19/07, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/19/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Hello all,
I believe there is something we should ask at this point. This
question is
for everyone participating in this Mailing List:
What is your definition of an "expert"?
Please, for now, try to resist responding to the others' answers,
simply
state your own.
Someone who, if they get involved in editing subjects on Wikipedia in
which
they have expertise, will get quickly exasperated by the process.
Counterpoint:
For the purposes of debate, I'm going to claim pseudo-Expert status in the fields of IT operations and systems architecture (general), spaceflight (general), reusable spacecraft and launch vehicles (particular), space policy and alt.space (particular), ships and naval architecture (general), and nuclear weapons.
Of these, we've had WP "annoying edit frustration" problems with one survey article in spaceflight ( [[Space Exploration]], resolved), an image copyright issue with shipbuilding articles, and nuclear weapons being a moderately popular vandalism target.
All the stuff that's frustrated me has been in other fields, where I wouldn't think I'm an expert by any reasonable definition.
I was being a bit facetious, as I hope people would recognize.