Elisabeth Bauer wrote:
* the mediocre persons with credits. Someone
really knowledgeable in
a field doesn't have to cite his credentials to gain respect in the
wikipedia community, his contributions speak for him. If you have to
refer to your credits in an argument instead of citing sources and
use arguments, there's something wrong.
Not necessarily. There are times when, apart from saying "please read
the basic textbooks on this area, I can't give you 4 years of courses
in an email reply", the only thing you can use are your credentials.
Referring to the basic textbooks is fair enough, but shutting down the
discussion based on one's credentials injects a logical fallacy. The
contributor who refuses to accept the basic textbook reference does need
to accept the burden of finding sources for his alternate theory. What
was said in the "4 years of courses" is unverifiable if it is only a
form of hearsay evidence.
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