[WikiEN-l] An expert's perspective - Tim Bray on editing the XML article
Charles Matthews
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Wed Aug 12 21:49:44 UTC 2009
Bod Notbod wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax<abd at lomaxdesign.com> wrote:
>
>
>> we might short-block [experts] quickly, if they do not
>> respond to warnings, but we would explain that we respect their
>> expertise and we want them to advise us.
>>
>
> Nothing says "we respect your expertise" like a short-term block :o)
>
>
Sadly, I think enthusiasm for accusations is likely to lead to COI being
overused against experts. What is required to establish COI in our sense
is a sustained demonstration that they have an agenda in editing that is
clearly at odds with the encyclopedia's best interests. Not that they
can't guess where lines someone else is drawing for the playing area run.
Charles
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