--- Sj <2.718281828(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, we can accurately be much more polite than
this.
That's why I replied here.
If you as an expert in a particular field -- for
instance, as the
possessor of the formal documents describint an institution's
scope,
mandate, and resources -- come with facts and references to back up
your statements, and write a good and balanced description of your
organization, there is a body of editors who will preserve your
contributions in proportion to their balance and precision.
Exactly.
Many of these will be people with no interest in the
subject matter
at
hand, who will watch edits to that page only in order to moderate
the
article's development.
Yes.
Indeed, direct editing by an agency is an unusual
enough event that
I
think a number of NPOV experts would drop in on the article to join
in
the discussion / community moderation of its development. It is
not
the case that people with idiosyncratic views can add whatever
unsubstantiated opinions they want to articles, and we should be
very
clear about this fact when explaining the wiki way on Wikipedia
(note
that this is not the wiki way everywhere...).
I think that would be a good experiment for that agency to see the
wikiprocess in action. And yes, I get your comment about our wikiway
not being universal.
This may be
something that needs to be addressed by the W as a
whole.
I think that having 5 or 6 wikipedians email the
man
independently
would confuse him rather than anything. If there
a place where
"answers" to letters can be edited by the group? And the
recipient
directed there?
Please see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PR .
That page was created to deal with responses to the media, but it
can
probably handle collaborative responses to letters / feedback as
well.
That would be good. Thanks for the link.
I suggest this because I see this sort of letter
will become more
common, and that we might want to not reinvent the wheel with
each
letter.
Quite right, and the responses we send to individuals like this
will
likely come up in articles about us in the future.
And we dont' want those to kick us in the left buttock... :)
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Chris Mahan
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