[WikiEN-l] Does openness dull the bleeding edge?

[Matt Brown]

On 8/30/06, stevertigo <vertigosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Does the fact that Wikipedia is 1/10 Pokemon and sex/porn articles chase
> away scientists?

IMO, probably not, and if it is, I don't think it's a bias we can
change.  I think that it's way too easy to claim that - Pokemon et al
get too much blame for things that aren't their fault.  I do agree
with those further down the thread that pop-culture trivia spread into
serious articles IS a problem.

> What would WP look like if NOR was lifted for certain science
> articles?

Awful.  WP:NOT a dumping ground for new theories, and that's entirely
the point of NOR.  Any reputable scientific theory should already be
published.

I think that any issue with advanced physics articles is one common to
any specialist subject where it's hard to write about it without good
knowledge of the field.

-Matt