[WikiEN-l] Historian teaching with Wikipedia

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/16/2009 2:38:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
michaeldavid86 at comcast.net writes:


> Then why, David, are academics, professionals and other experts in their
> fields still treated with such hostility in this Project?>>

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The role of experts is to help find the sources, not to include their own 
original theories about those sources.  That's been the essential problem 
with experts in the project.  They want to write up their own unpublished, or 
unvetted information into the pages.

An expert in this project needs to realize that we are not original 
publishers, we are only re-publishers.  Whatever you put here, when questioned, 
needs to be able to be backed up with some published authority.

Will Johnson





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