JAY JG wrote:
From: "Charles Matthews" charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com
Jimbo wrote
I do not endorse the view, a view held as far as I know only by a very tiny minority, that Wikipedia is anti-elitist or anti-expert in any way. If anything, we are *extremely* elitist but anti-credentialist. That is, we seek thoughtful intelligent people willing to do the very hard work of getting it right, and we don't accept anything less than that. PhDs are valuable evidence of that, and attracting and retraining academic specialists is a valid goal.
I think Jimbo perhaps meant 'retaining', though in my case 'retraining' rings a bell, also.
"Restraining" might also apply. :-O
Though if they've been properly retrained, meaning they abide by the spirit of Wikipedia's policies, no further restraint should be necessary.
--Michael Snow