[WikiEN-l] Citationgate: expertise and verifiability

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"David Gerard" wrote
 
> Indeed. I wrote an [[WP:PRO|essay]] about this. Feel like applying
> some of the ideas in it? 

I have an upmarket quote for you. 

'Maladjustment in human affairs is a concomitant of change. Forms, procedure, and ideas outlive the conditions which gave them rise; disbodied they continue an independent existence. [...] The cri de coeur of a member of the [[Long Parliament]], "You will shout 'Fire, fire', be it in Noah's flood", describes one aspect of the ever-changing divergence between fixed ideas and a changing reality.'

[[Lewis Namier]], a 1952 essay "History".

Charles

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