Phil - can you be more specific about that policy? Where is it?
I haven't run into it in areas I care about, and if it's there right now that's a bad enough thing that I'll go tilt at it for a while. -george william herbert On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Phil Sandifer <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Jan 1, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Marc Riddell wrote: > > > on 1/1/09 9:52 AM, Phil Sandifer at [email protected] wrote: > > > >> This really is how bad our policy > >> formation has gotten - there is a sincere belief that specialist > >> knowledge is actually harmful to Wikipedia. > >> > > It's the dominant culture, Phil. And, sadly, it is the way the > > Project has > > been headed for some time now. > > Indeed. But it is, in practice, not difficult to find the most > pernicious pieces of bad policy that allow that move, and to make it > so that people who are actually interested in writing a useful > resource for our readers can do so. > > As it stands, Wikipedia is increasingly at risk of having its quality > swept away by the increasingly large community, and the resultant drop > in quality of the average community member that entails. > > This hard and fast rule against specialist knowledge - and the bizarre > belief that the solution is to strengthen it - is a key place where > pushing back is beneficial. > > -Phil > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
