On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:15:10AM -0500, Phil Sandifer wrote: > I am not sure the point applies as well to NOR, where we do actually run > into the problem that we need to have some way of differentiating > between an acceptable interpretation of a source and an unacceptable > one.
The only method we have is to engage in discussion on the talk page. I often say something like "Anybody can edit Wikipedia, but not everyone can edit every article". In practice, I find that it's not specialized topics that are more difficult, but topics that are associated with actual political or religious debates. One incident I remember involved an article where an editor wanted to introduce a certain type of proof that the editor found more intuitively clear. In the editor's opinion, the way that the proof is ordinarily presented in the literature is non-ideal because of the way that certain basic parts of the field are organized. Responding to this sort of proposal is extremely difficult without a broad knowledge of how the literature as a whole deals with a particular topic, because there's no single source that can be consulted to settle the debate. This type of high-level decision about the fundamental organization and due weight of ideas in a certain article will always require a broad knowledge of the field. - Carl _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
