[WikiEN-l] Paul Taylor

[K P]

On 5/28/07, Cheney Shill <halliburton_shill at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/28/07, Josh Gordon <user.jpgordon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 5/28/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > And, without the community, there is no encyclopedia.
> > >
> > > Yeah, but. To be a dancer takes intense training, years
> > >
> > > To be a contributer to Wikipedia takes the ability to
> > type, hopefully
> > > the ability to read,  and an Internet connection.
> > >
> > > There's nothing remotely resembling a parallel.
> >
> >
> > From 8 1/2 years as a dance parent, I have to agree
> > there's not much
> > comparison between a Wikipedia editor and a dancer, and
> > the closer an editor
> > gets to being like a dancer, the less useful they are as
> > an editor imo.
> > This is why many of the obsessive editors burn out,
> > simply they become less
> > useful as they devote more extreme amounts of time to
> > editing Wikipedia, and
> > less time to learning anything useful to add to
> > Wikipedia.  IMO.
>
> Yes, from 10 years as a colleague of Essjay, nobody wants a
> historian that's spent 20 years studying history and
> archeaology digs, or a doctor that's spent 6 years studying
> chemistry and biology and 4 in practice.




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Actually I'd even rather the more rounded doctor, the one who spent only
four years or five years on chemistry and biology, then 6 years in medical
school studying medicine, with year as an intern, and a residency on top of
all that, then, heck, I'm an American, I like all my specialists to be
fellows, too, see patients in specialty consulations, take primary and
second opinion patients--the more diversity the better.  My favoritet doctor
was a nurser, first, that adds an even greater level of diversity.  More
rounded, change after a while, gain experience in one area, then put it into
practice.  Not sit at computer and research only via internet, then enter
information.

Studying dance requires a lot, but it's different from studying medicine, it
is more focused, less diverse (no matter that classical dancers are able to
perform in most any technique and other dancers study classical ballet if
they want to be great at something else), than most other fields of study.
I'll take a ballerina who has studied nothing but classical ballet, though,
over a doctor who has done nothing but study medicine any day.

KP