For subjects that aren't controversial, the peer reviewing structure of a university or journal might work.
In general though, a peer review is as good as the credibility of the peer reviewer. A reference is as good as the credibility of the referencer,etc... That is the essence of the pagerank algorithm that is used by google to compute the credibility of an internet page.
The solution to this problem is really easy IMO. Let all articles be forked and provide a personalized reputation system that will only fetch only one page per article for every user.
2012/10/27 George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com
Right. We (Wikipedia) are not qualified to judge if these original claims are accurate, reasonable, worthy of consideration, unlikely, incorrect, or batshit insane.
Attempting to publish novel theories via Wikipedia - no matter how well supported - is completely the wrong approach. Scientific inquiry is not a single-handed enterprise. It depends on peer review of theories and evidence and conclusions. That peer review must be by qualified peers in the field.
-george william herbert
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
It's pretty simple, publish original work elsewhere first.
Fred
Greetings –
I hope this is a good place to send a weighty message to Wikipedia. You’ll want to read all through.
I am a scientist who has always liked the Wikipedia idea, and I like your implementation. Lately I’ve started making contributions. Although I’m a cognitive scientist who taught biological psychology at degree level for several years and have done AI research since the ‘80’s, I’ve diverted for a decade or more to resolve a set of major evolutionary puzzles.
John V. Jackson.
http://sciencepolice2010.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/sciencepolice2010-launches...
http://sciencepolice2010.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/sciencepolice-14-latest...
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