[Wikipedia-l] why an average person would wish to ruin a good article?

[Delirium]

Fred Bauder wrote:

>You're changing the subject. Which is that an excellent article written by a
>knowledgable person which CONFORMS TO THE ACCEPTED CANON OF KNOWLEDGE can be
>trashed back to the level of what the average users remember from their
>undergraduate courses.
>  
>
That I'll agree is true.  There are plenty of fields where the state of 
the art has advanced considerably in the past 10-20 years, but where the 
general state of education in the field is still mostly teaching the 
state of the art circa 10-20 years ago.  In those cases someone who 
knows what they're talking about will have to insist that it stay with 
the updated version, even if the newer material is only taught in 
graduate courses--as long as there are references to it indeed being the 
current state of the field.

-Mark