Hoi, Being expert is not necessarily a bad thing. It is a bad thing when it makes you think that you are necessarily better. If you think that being expert is being superior, I think Larry is looking for experts for his project. If you think that being expert means that you can resolve problems amicably by finding sources to show some truth/worth in arguments, then I share the sentiment that it is not a bad thing. The proposals that I have seen so far are largely a reaction to some nasty business in a major American newspaper. When your argue for due diligence and showing sources particularly when it concerns living people, I am all for it. The current proposals are in my opinion an overreaction and if adopted will kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Again, consider who we are, where we came from. Again consider that sources do not tell the whole truth but only a particular point of view. Using expertise and sources as a weapon it will not help us find a neutral point of view. It will certainly not find us the truth as in the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Thanks. GerardM
daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
And is being expert necessarily a bad thing? .
In a message dated 12/3/2005 3:14:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, gerard.meijssen@gmail.com writes:
And indeed, we would drive many people . I understand a wish for sources but by putting red boxes and what have you around what has not been sourced you make us into something what we are not. We would be as expert as what Larry Sanger wants in his new project.
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