[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's destiny

Phil Boswell phil.boswell at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 13:38:48 UTC 2006


"Steve Block" <steve.block at myrealbox.com> wrote in 
message news:4402F3B8.8090100 at myrealbox.com...
> David Gerard wrote:
>> Steve Block wrote:
>>> I think they were advocates rather than experts, weren't they?
>> This is not the case and does them a great injustice. Though it's
>> possible such an assumption of bad faith from outsiders was behind the
>> dedicated attempts to drive them off.
> That's not a bad faith assumption.  Eric Burns is, on one level, a
> blogger who writes about webcomics.  Are we suggesting any blogger is a
> reputable expert on a given field?

Not necessarily, but we are in danger of declaring that an Expert with a 
Blog is no longer to be considered an Expert.

Which croggles the mind...

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil
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