Well, in line with the suggested policy, I've taken a look at a dozen or so of his contrbutions. Trouble is, they are all things like "Liza Minelli won the 1987 Grammy Award for the movie West Side Story". Well I don't *know* if that's true or not. Nor - tell the truth - do I care. I'll never care. I looked at a good couple of dozen Michael edits, figured it would take me at least ten minutes per edit to work out of they were factual or not, and I *still* wouldn't know if they were suitable and relevant! I just don't have the contextual knowledge. So sorry, T-CAT, I can't help you with this one.
See if you can't get him to start making edits to the history or flora/fauna or natural history or aircraft articles: I'll be onto him like a flash then!
sigh
So in other words, if the article isn't something you care about, you have no interest in making sure that it's right? Is this any way to run an encyclopedia? Zoe Tony Wilson list@redhill.net.au wrote:Well, in line with the suggested policy, I've taken a look at a dozen or so of his contrbutions. Trouble is, they are all things like "Liza Minelli won the 1987 Grammy Award for the movie West Side Story". Well I don't *know* if that's true or not. Nor - tell the truth - do I care. I'll never care. I looked at a good couple of dozen Michael edits, figured it would take me at least ten minutes per edit to work out of they were factual or not, and I *still* wouldn't know if they were suitable and relevant! I just don't have the contextual knowledge. So sorry, T-CAT, I can't help you with this one.
See if you can't get him to start making edits to the history or flora/fauna or natural history or aircraft articles: I'll be onto him like a flash then!
sigh
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Zoe wrote:
So in other words, if the article isn't something you care about, you have no interest in making sure that it's right? Is this any way to run an encyclopedia?
I would have a more benign reading of this. We've all got limited time, and it's much easier to check facts in our own specialties where we know the literature and the appropriate web sites or even have key reference works on our bookshelves. What takes 5 minutes in a familiar subject can easily take an hour in an unknown topic. ... And we all would like to have time left to make original contributions.
Eclecticology
Zoe wrote:
So in other words, if the article isn't something you care about, you have no interest in making sure that it's right? Is this any way to run an encyclopedia?
I think it is. We're all volunteers, and some of us have interests in some areas that others don't. No one has any moral duty to oversee articles that they don't care about. And we can't conclude from that that people don't care about it being right -- it's just that we can't all be motivated to watch everything.
--Jimbo