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

[David Gerard]

2009/8/15 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <abd at lomaxdesign.com>:
> At 05:01 PM 8/14/2009, you wrote:

>>  Even quite patient experts have a limited tolerance for idiocy.
>> For an extreme case, look at the first global warming arbitration
>> case, where the cranks got together to try to get one of the UK's
>> top climate scientists voted off the island. Fortunately, the AC
>> had the presence of mind to point out that peer-reviewed scientific
>> papers are rather better encyclopedia sources than Rush Limbaugh
>> show transcripts. And the expert in question also happens to be a
>> rather good Wikipedian. Abd's proposed rule is pathologically
>> anti-expert and would be disastrous for Wikipedia's content and its
>> production process. - d.

> Oh, no, not that article, the site of long-running, unresolved
> disputes that never go away!


And having just seen this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abd-William_M._Connolley/Evidence

- I gain insight into your proposal.


- d.