[WikiEN-l] The Community vs. Scholarly Consensus

[geni]

2008/12/17 Phil Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com>:
>
> On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
>> Please don't! I try and avoid reading about lit crit (I completely
>> avoid reading actual lit crit), far too many long words used purely to
>> sound clever.
>
> Not to call Thomas out particularly here, but this attitude is much of
> the problem - WP:NOR reads like it was written by a bunch of people
> who were really hostile to anything to happen in literary criticism
> since World War II, and who thought it best to just ignore it all.
>
> I suspect that, in fact, it was.
>
> -Phil

And this is one of the reasons why wikipedia policy is what it is.
This fight has been done by others and they have done it better ( eg
http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html ). Wikipedia policy is a
pragmatic approach to the situation.



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geni