On 10 Sep 2004, at 10:35, wikien-l-request@Wikipedia.org wrote:
Message: 10 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:42:43 +0100 From: "Charles Matthews" charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com
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D) You are not going to get top academics interested.
Charles
Yes we will. Build it and they will come. They already are coming. There already are rather good academics in our midst.
If however some "top academics" were to refuse to respond to our invitation (which we extend to academics and non-academics alike) just because they cannot throw their weight around here and have to -gasp- defend their views among equals, then we're probably better off without those "top academics". We're not shedding any tears over trolls deserting the Wikipedia either.
The ''real'' top academics will continue to be (increasingy) attracted by our proposition and they won't have a problem with defending their views, nor with conversing with fellow contributors as equals.
-- Jens [[User:Ropers|Ropers]] www.ropersonline.com