geni wrote:
On 1/13/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>
wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
I
suggested something on another thread that stated that only people with
background in a certain field should be qualified to judge notability.
Who determines someone's qualifications? I can claim to be an expert
on any topic I like, that doesn't make it true.
You can establish your expertise through your participation in the
relevant WikiProject.
After what happened with the WikiProject Alternative medicine I do not
trust wikiprojects to be neutral. You also risk turning every
wikiproject into something with internal politics matching Esperanza.
I can't comment on Esperanza because I have not been following that debate.
I do think it's wrong to extrapolate the experiences regarding
Alternative medicine into all sorts of unrealated projects. In the
present context all we would be asking them to do is to deal with
alternative medicine topics. There may be contentious issues there, but
I think it's reasonable to expect that both sides will remain more or
less on topic.
The potential for every WikiProject to have it's own internal politics
is certainly there, but why is that so bad? Is it really any better to
throw these issues into a communal sewage treatment plant than a local
septic tank? It might be easier to find a lost diamond ring in the latter.
Ec