On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Peter Damian <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Goodman" <[email protected]> > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 12:07 AM > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Has Wikipedia changed since 2005? > > >> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Peter Damian >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>>We were talking >>> about very aggressive editors who know absolutely nothing of the subject, >>> and drive away specialist editors. >>> >> >> I see an equal proportion of very aggressive editors among the expert >> as well as the non-expert editors. Expertise does not necessarily >> mean a devotion to expressing all significant views and presenting >> them fairly. I have been involved a little with some articles in >> Wikipedia written by fully-credentialed experts --in one case with an >> international reputation and distinguished academic awards-- devoted >> to expressing their own peculiarly one-sided view of the subject. And >> there was a group of articles with several experts of established high >> reputation each taking the position that the other ones were >> hopelessly wrong. > > The irony is that this does not happen in Wikipedia in my experience, with > philosophy. I know all of the small group and they get on very well and > support each other. The problem is the aggressively belligerent non-trained > editors who drive the specialists away. I think the best way to convince you > of this is to get testimonials. There is one here >
Your own history, Peter, proves that you are incorrect; you are, yourself, an example of an expert who has been, at times, aggressively belligerent. I know you don't want to bring up your own history in this thread, but it's a simple fact that professional experts are not always able to edit collaboratively and/or with an acceptably neutral point of view. Nathan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
