This is the notorious problem with Wikis. In principle they allow a great and open exchange of information, but in practice the lack of quality control allows anyone to post just about anything, even information that is terrible wrong or short-sighted. The International Congress of Speleology next year in Texas will broaden many US cavers' perspective, but if anyone reading this can make it to France this August, the European Congress of Speleology will be an amazing event in a spectacular karst area and I encourage you to go. http://www.vercors2008.ffspeleo.fr/
George (and not nearly as famous as some poor well-intentioned Wiki-writer thinks) From: Minton, Mark [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 4:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Texascavers] RE: wikianswers - part 3 David Locklear said: >There are 41 questions on the new wiki-answers page after just one week of being up: >http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/4337 I take issue with the suggested answer to the first question: "Who are the top 10 most famous speleologist?" (That should be speleologists, plural; same with question 5.) The names given are embarrassingly U.S.-centric. There is only one non-American listed, and that is a French archaeologist I've never heard of. What about people like Norbert Casteret? Bill Stone is listed as the only human to reach the deepest point in a cave. Say what? Which cave? He's never even been to the deepest cave in the world (Krubera/Voronja) as far as I know, and I don't think he's the only person to get to the bottom of any deep cave. That answer should be pulled. I'm afraid to look at any of the others... Mark Minton
