[WikiEN-l] Scientists told "publish in Wikipedia or else"

[Jonathan Hughes]

>
> From: Carl Beckhorn <cbeckhorn at fastmail.fm>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Scientists told "publish in Wikipedia or else"
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:24:01PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
> > http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081216/full/news.2008.1312.html
>
> This is very exciting! The first article appears to be [[SmY]], and
> I don't see any glaring problems with it. The two diagrams could
> use a footnote in each of their long captions, but there are three
> references provided that seem reasonably on this topic. Of course some
> people will complain that it's too technical, but that's an issue to
> take up at WP:PEREN.
>
>  - Carl


I'd imagine a simple solution would be to ask if the authors can tone down
the technical language a bit.  Something along the lines of "we layman be
not learned enough to understand".

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