Brian wrote:
Walter van Kalken wrote:
daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
Is it too much to ask that contributions to Wikipedia be correct? That is news to me.
Danny
There is a difference between an entry being correct and someone having to defend every letter of it.
Britannica has to defend every letter of it before they can get published. The same is true for all other major encyclopedias. Why wouldn't it be true for us? Aren't we trying to make an encyclopedia here?
No, we're trying to be better. :-P
It's not a question of defence. It's a question of mindsets and attitudes. It's a question of drawing people in and having them want to belong. It's not about adversarial structures that alienate people. We are on the same side when it comes to identifying the fundamental problem that we want to solve.
Ec