[WikiEN-l] Dr. Connolley is an expert (was: ... no longer neutral contributor)

Poor, Edmund W Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com
Mon Nov 24 19:44:39 UTC 2003


Well, Stan, I admit to getting up late this morning, but please don't
use "arrows" as a metaphor. I'm not attacking William. I really like the
guy.

I'm just saying that if he's going to edit a Wikipedia article to say
that some POV he personally opposes is "clearly false", then he himself
should be cited as the source of that POV.

Dr. Connolley is one of the few people (if not the first) at Wikipedia
who play simultaneous roles: neutral contributor and authoritative
source.

Everyone else has to cite an "expert" as a source when writing articles.
I propose that Dr. Connolley is /himself/ a source. So I created a page
for him. It's not a vanity page, as some have termed [[Easter
Bradford]], because he didn't create it to publicize himself. It's an
article about an expert.

Uncle Ed



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