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post 6.
JL = John Lee SB = Steve Bennett
SB: What is an accurate reporter?
JL: And do define "responsible journalist / scholar". If you arrive at Wikipedia with preconceptions of how things should be done from past experience, and don't adjust these preconceptions, then you will of course have a difficult time fitting in, especially when our editorial norms are established for good reasons.
some people just seem driven to get the facts straight, no matter what they might have believed beforehand. that's my intuitive sense of what makes someone an accurate reporter or a reponsible scholar. i think that most AR's and RS's that come to WP find that the 3 content policies embody fantastically well what they have already been born or trained to do, since the basic ideas of grounded and sourced research were hardly invented locally, but derived from standards and practices, indeed, from norms of conduct that have goverened the life of inquiry for as long as it has been alive.
so the "preconceptions" of this ethos are in pre-established harmony with the principles set forth in the 3 content-governing regulations of WP, namely, the policies of NOR, NPOV, and VER, and most folks who have been living by these rules in the grounded research portion of their intellectual lives feel themselves to be, at least, at first, very much at home.
and what some of them, i'd never say all, get disgruntled about is precisely the extent to which the WP community as a real body fails to live up to what it espouses as its ideals.
if the perceptions of these disgruntled masses are nevertheless saccurate and responsible, then it's important information for the long-term health and viability of WP.
jon awbrey
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