[WikiEN-l] An expert's perspective - Tim Bray on editing the XML article

[Carcharoth]

It's striking a balance between experts who WP:OWN articles and revert
"ignorant" editors who "don't know what they are talking about", and
requiring experts to carefully explain everything. Ideally, you would
tell both lots to edit based on reliable sources, not from their own
authority.

Carcharoth

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:32 AM, <wjhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> Just the opposite.
> We want experts to edit the controversial bits.
> Do you really want a swarm of amateurs who have little-to-no basis in
> the field being the sole people editing the most contentious portions?
> That just sounds upside-down to me.
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> Will Johnson
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> From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <abd at lomaxdesign.com>
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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> At 05:33 PM 8/12/2009, you wrote:
>>On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Abd ul-Rahman
>>Lomax<abd at lomaxdesign.com> wrote:
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>> > we might short-block [experts] quickly, if they do not
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>> > expertise and we want them to advise us.
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>>Nothing says "we respect your expertise" like a short-term block :o)
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> The short block is down the line from warnings for incivility. I'm
> claiming we should expect POV-pushing from experts. So, unless it's
> not controversial, experts shouldn't edit articles! As long as the
> expert behaves, no problem. And experts sometimes have a lot to say.
> No harassment for writing too much. Ahem. But talk page refactoring,
> organization, lots of stuff to do....
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