On 28 May 2012 08:45, Edward at Logic Museum <edward(a)logicmuseum.com> wrote:
Stepping back, it would seem extraordinary to a member
of the general public
that any organisation whose purpose is the construction of a comprehensive
and reliable reference work should be banning specialist editors in the
first place.
We don't. We ban problematical editors. Specialism or otherwise is
largely irrelevant.
The usual reply, that 'crowdsourcing' will take
the place of
specialists, doesn't seem to work.
I suppose attacking a position that bares no relation to a vaguely
defined group's real position technical moves you outside of normal
strawman territory but it still presents the same logical problems
I have pointed out some serious problems
with an article about one of Britain's most prominent and influential
philosophers, on this very forum, and the article hasn't improved in any way
since last week. Is this good PR for Wikipedia or Wikimedia?
You wish to appeal to PR? Not entirely sure that is a good strategy.
May I suggest appealing to Glycon? It has a better reputation and of
course would help you to cultivate a geek chic appearence if you
wanted to.
So I say it again: it's a matter of whether
Wikipedia and Wikimedia 'can'
work with the system to improve articles. There is in fact a choice.
I'm sorry are you under the impression you are "the system"?
But aside from your rather meandering oddities the reality is that you
have invested significant effort in attempting to disrupt the
activities of wikimedia UK. This creates a trust problem to the point
where it is rather hard to justify working with you on anything,
--
geni