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.