Just the opposite. We want experts to edit the controversial bits. Do you really want a swarm of amateurs who have little-to-no basis in the field being the sole people editing the most contentious portions? That just sounds upside-down to me.
Will Johnson -----Original Message----- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]> To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Aug 13, 2009 4:24 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] An expert's perspective - Tim Bray on editing the XML article At 05:33 PM 8/12/2009, you wrote: >On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Abd ul-Rahman >Lomax<[email protected]> wrote: > > > we might short-block [experts] quickly, if they do not > > respond to warnings, but we would explain that we respect their > > expertise and we want them to advise us. > >Nothing says "we respect your expertise" like a short-term block :o) The short block is down the line from warnings for incivility. I'm claiming we should expect POV-pushing from experts. So, unless it's not controversial, experts shouldn't edit articles! As long as the expert behaves, no problem. And experts sometimes have a lot to say. No harassment for writing too much. Ahem. But talk page refactoring, organization, lots of stuff to do.... _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
