[WikiEN-l] Times article (London)

[Anthony]

On 8/19/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/20/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > on 8/19/07 4:22 PM, Ian Woollard at ian.woollard at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > I think that domain experts should be paired with wikiexperts; that
> > > way the wikiexperts can hand-hold the domain experts around the
> > > wikirules, and help revert unreasonable edits by others.
> >
> > There's a seed here; something to be seriously considered.
> > >
> > >> I ask this with my tongue partially planted in my cheek: If a person,
> > >> recognized as especially knowledgeable in a field, makes an edit to a
> > >> article in that field, then cites their own texts as sources, would this be
> > >> acceptable to the Project? Do you see what I¹m getting at? Who would
> > >> Einstein have cited?
> > >
> > > Lorentz; or other people that have studied Einstein. Push came to
> > > shove he could ask somebody notable to write something about it and
> > > then reference it ;-)
> > >
> > Einstein was the only person capable of giving Einstein an argument. Can you
> > imagine reverting him! :-)
>
> In fact, Arthur Eddington is the standard source on relativity, not Einstein
> himself. Arguably also the Feynman Lectures would be a good place to
> use.
>
> And far from people not being able to argue with Einstein, in fact Albert
> held various correspondences with people who espoused rival theories
> (some of them even producing very nearly identical results to those of
> the relativity theory). Not to mention the long and very tight
> argument he had
> against "god playing with dice".
>
> It is a popular fiction that Einstein had no peer within physics.
>
Anyone have a copy of the 13th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica?
Einstein wrote the "Space-Time" article
<ref>http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Main_Page</ref>.  I'd be
interested in seeing how many references he gave.  "Who would Einstein
have cited?"  No need to speculate.  Let's find out.