Frankly, I *do* think wikipedia is an appropriate media to document EV
pioneers.
- it's a widely recognized reference,
- its pages frequently show high in search results,
- it's considered generally trustworthy and cited by many.
I think we would be doing a disservice to those wanting to know about EV
history to omit publishing in wikipedia.
As for the policy of submissions, I did a bit of reading. I do not see
anything that would discourage or ban documenting of EV pioneers. It
does state that wikipedia cannot contain unpublished theories, data,
etc. I think what that means is one cannot use wikipedia to publish
research - results of a scientific experiment, for example - which,
instead must be published elsewhere and referenced from wikipedia.
However publishing fact - who did what in the pioneering days of EVs is
perfectly acceptable.
Here are some wikipedia guideline pages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies_and_guidelines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines#Content
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies#Content
Perhaps I'm missing some other point about not publishing in wikipedia.
If so, please explain.
Peri
Would the EV Album folks add a wiki to their server for this purpose?
On October 3, 2015 2:16:44 PM CDT, Ben Goren via EV <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Oct 3, 2015, at 12:19 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV
<[email protected]> wrote:
You're absolutely right. _A_ wiki would be good for this sort of
thing,
but _the_ Wikipedia is not the proper wiki.
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