[WikiEN-l] On Experts (Was Correction to New Yorker Article)

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 07:56:00 -0500, Phil Sandifer
<Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:

>What Essjay's case suggests, which is striking, is that the  
>safeguards of not letting expertise be the sole reason for something  
>and of still taking seriously arguments against experts, particularly  
>when they cite source are actually all we need in order to be able to  
>deal with being respectful towards claimed experts and take seriously  
>their critiques of articles.

Yes, exactly that.  But we have a residual issue, external to the
matter of edits, which is that Essjay has a number of trusted
positions and seems to have lost the trust of a significant proportion
of the Wikipedia community.  That is primarily Essjay's problem, not
ours, of course. 

Guy (JzG)
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