On 8/19/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/20/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 8/19/07 4:22 PM, Ian Woollard at ian.woollard@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.