[Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/19/2010 9:38:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
peter.damian at btinternet.com writes:

>  "I would strongly urge you to leave the editing of articles 
> concerning philosophy and/or philosophers to genuine experts. You simply 
> lack the understanding and expertise required to assess whether an edit is 
> a 
> genuine improvement or an obvious and cowardly sniper attack (as with the 
> insertion in question)." 


Yes I now see the problem :)
Ivory tower eggheads who think they have the right now, to talk down to 
other contributors instead of educating them.
If you, as an academic, cannot explain your edit/article/sentence to a 
person who isn't already an expert in your field, then you simply are too 
rarified to find a home here at Wikipedia and good riddance, in my opinion.

We don't need *more* huffing and puffing, put-out little boys fingering our 
project.
Articles which can only be understood and thus edited by those with IQs 
over 165 should probably be consigned to specialist (read read by few) 
periodicals.

I'll take your one-sentence snipe as abject agreement :)

Will Johnson