Stirling Newberry wrote:
On Mar 9, 2005, at 8:09 AM, Evan Prodromou wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-03 at 11:16 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
PhDs are valuable evidence of that, and attracting and retraining academic specialists is a valid goal.
I hope you mean "retaining" and not "retraining" here, Jimbo. B-)
~Evan
Both Wikipedia is different from academic writing. The point of an academic paper is to drive to a point, the purpose of a wiki article is to describe the points made in notable and documentable sources.
good point
I'm pretty sure Jimbo meant "retaining", but that doesn't make "retraining" any less accurate (and amusing) in that context.