[Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

[Mike Christie]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Mike Godwin <mnemonic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apart from the question of whether this particular article -- on the
> Haymarket bombing -- has been hurt by editors' ill-considered
> application of UNDUE, there's the larger question of what it means for
> our credibility when a very respected journal, The Chronicle of Higher
> Education, features an op-ed that outlines, in very convincing detail,
> what happens when a subject-matter expert attempts to play the rules
> and is still slapped down. If I thought this author's experience is
> rare, I wouldn't be troubled by it. But as someone who frequently
> fielded complaints from folks who were not tendentious kooks, my
> impression is that it is not rare, and that the language of UNDUE --
> as it exists today -- ends up being leveraged in a way that hurts
> Wikipedia both informationally and reputationally.
>

Do you have specific ideas either as to what is wrong with the current
language, or what it should be changed to say?

Mike