From: Stan Shebs
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:14 PM
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Our credibility is questioned
The Cunctator wrote:
>
>Boy, it's sure easy for people to attack her, when her criticism of
the
>articles as poorly muddling medical with moral
issues is entirely
valid.
If the
criticism was directed at the one article, then no problem, but
she's
going from there to a blanket condemnation of the entire encyclopedia
and the
people working hard on it. It's insulting to dedicated contributors to
suggest that their content is worthless without an anointed editorial
board
to bless it, and it betrays massive ignorance and an unwillingness to
learn.
Given that, I'd recommend extra leeriness and doublechecking of all of
her
assertions - she sounds to me more like a faux expert
trying to snow
us
with haughty attitude and big words. Beware!
The defensiveness and the personal attacks are guaranteed not to help
anybody.
Guaranteed not to help.
Try again.