On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:03:42 -0500, Stirling Newberry stirling.newberry@xigenics.net wrote:
On Jan 6, 2005, at 1:41 PM, Daniel Mayer wrote:
And you incorrectly assume that the non-expert POV warrior knows more than the non-expert NPOV-minded person or group (if the later are really in the right, then they will garner more support in the end and win).
[micro essay on 'poves']
That slithy word will haunt my dreams.
Fundamentally expertise means something very different in the wikipedia verse - it means not being able to frame competing ideas out, but being able to draw a large enough frame so that readers can reasonably weigh the competing ideas available.
Yes, this. Being a field expert helps in being competent to draw such frames, and helps even more in filling in the frames with all available ideas, but is neither necessary nor sufficient to make an expert contributor.