On 4/14/06, Rob gamaliel8@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/14/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Seriously, that's the basic problem isn't it - amateurs trying to do the work of experts.
Isn't that the definition of Wikipedia? ;)
Hmmm...now that you have shot a huge hole in my generalisation...
I really hadn't thought of it that way. We are amateurs trying to be encyclopaedists to some extent. But we are amateurs playing at being editors (in some cases, professional editors playing at being amateur editors...), not amateurs playing at being subject experts (though again, some of us are subject experts). Ok, so discard my summary line, and stick with Steve's - I think he got my point across better than I did.
Ian