Okay, so it is a fact that expert people are saying things that they cannot know. I am all over global warming projections, myself, and I do not think they are encyclopedic. They are the subject of endless debate over what the rate of increase in error is as you go into the future. The material that goes into those projections is much more important than what comes out of them. Weather history, economic history -- those are fine subjects for an encyclopedia. They must be condensed and made interesting with links and analysis. Found a trend? Sure. Display it. Extrapolating it should be an excercise left for the reader. Direction of wind in a high pressure zone north of the equator? Sure. Today's projected high in Timbuktu. Far too trivial. You would need megabytes of space for every day and our sources would be...um...lifted. We would be echoes.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Oskar Sigvardsson" oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com To: fredbaud@fairpoint.net; "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] A definite version of WP:CRYSTAL
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
So how should we treat this from the Fianancial Times:
Merrill chief sees severe global slowdown
By Greg Farrell in New York
Published: November 11 2008 14:42 | Last updated: November 11 2008 20:06
The global economy is entering a slowdown of epic proportions comparable with the period after the 1929 crash, John Thain, chairman and chief executive of Merrill Lynch, warned on Tuesday.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/834ebf5e-aff9-11dd-a795-0000779fd18c.html
What is true is not necessarily the underlying projection but the fact that presumably expert people are saying these things.
Fred
Exactly. I see no reason for wikipedia not to say "The total scale of this crisis is as of yet uncertain, but several economists are projecting [whatever]", with references. Saying this isn't trying to predict the outcome, which wikipedia shouldn't be doing, it's just simply reporting what people are saying about the crisis. It provides neutral and relevant information.
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