On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:13 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
Other than just nay-saying my opinions, with your own opinions, do you have a *positive* opinion on the topic? Which is whether our BLP's in general suffer from "low citation quality" ?
There's a certain glamour in just nullifying someone else's position, but I don't think that's going to propel us forward.
See, I am not going to express a general opinion on "citation quality is low" or "citation quality is high" because I would need to closely look at a few random BLP and a few "high-profile" BLP articles and (for me personally) assess every source there to be able to make a statement on that.
If you want a "positive opinion" on that: I do not having a problem with Wikipedia being "academic" at all, indeed I very much support this. Mind you, this doesn't mean that we should try to write as"academically and unintelligibly (to the general public) as possible, but I'm referring to the sources we use etc. - I think we should not lower our standards just to attract more readers.
Michael