[Foundation-l] Enforcing WP:CITE the Soi case

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Being expert is not necessarily a bad thing. It is a bad thing when it 
makes you think that you are necessarily better. If you think that being 
expert is being superior, I think Larry is looking for experts for his 
project. If you think that being expert means that you can resolve 
problems amicably by finding sources to show some truth/worth in 
arguments, then I share the sentiment that it is not a bad thing. The 
proposals that I have seen so far are largely a reaction to some nasty 
business in a major American newspaper. When your argue for due 
diligence and showing sources particularly when it concerns living 
people, I am all for it. The current proposals are in my opinion an 
overreaction and if adopted will kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Again, consider who we are, where we came from. Again consider that 
sources do not tell the whole truth but only a particular point of view. 
Using expertise and sources as a weapon it will not help us find a 
neutral point of view. It will certainly not find us the truth as in the 
whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Thanks.
    GerardM

daniwo59 at aol.com wrote:
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> And is being expert necessarily a bad thing?
> .
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> In a message dated 12/3/2005 3:14:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
> gerard.meijssen at gmail.com writes:
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> And  indeed, we would drive many people . I understand a wish for sources 
> but  by putting red boxes and what have you around  what has not been  
> sourced  you make us into something what we are not. We would   be as 
> expert as what Larry Sanger wants in his new project. 
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