[WikiEN-l] Knol product manager suggests it as a source for Wikipedia

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/25/2008 10:23:53 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
cbeckhorn at fastmail.fm writes:

WP:V is  very clear that peer-reviewed sources by professioanl 
publishers are our  preferred sources in the areas where they exist.
It is also clear that  self-published material, even from experts, should 
be taken with a grain  of salt.  I'll include some quotes below.  >>



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Your quotes are misread.  Peer-reviewed articles where they exist are  more 
reliable.
They are not the standard however.  For example in biography the  number of 
"peer-review" articles is vanishingly small.  In Physics it is  overwhelming.  
Quite different animals.
 
You are wrong to lump "self-published material" with "even from  experts".  
That isn't what the policy states, nor what we hashed out over  and over years 
ago on this very point.  We made a clear distinction between  self-published 
material from non-experts, and self-published material from  experts.  You 
argument seems to blur that distinction that we carefully  tried to draw.
 
Will Johnson



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