On 2 October 2010 22:00, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with you, David, that credentialism isn't the way forward. But asking > editors, nicely, to please do some research and to check what scholarly > literature is available, in google scholar, in google books, and in academic > publications databases, should not be too much to ask.
The problem is how to avoid making rules against stupidity. Because you can't actually outlaw stupid. Experts already complain about uncitability. I suppose we could advise experts on how to use citation as a debating tactic. > This is something where the Foundation could perhaps help, by asking > universities who support our work whether they would be willing to grant > Wikipedians -- or at least a limited number of Wikipedians -- some sort of > affiliation status, so they could log into these databases the same way their > students do. I believe this has been mooted on many occasions. I also think it doesn't address the problem of the aggressively stupid who won't take in that they're being stupid. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
