2009/8/15 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>: > At 05:01 PM 8/14/2009, you wrote:
>> Even quite patient experts have a limited tolerance for idiocy. >> For an extreme case, look at the first global warming arbitration >> case, where the cranks got together to try to get one of the UK's >> top climate scientists voted off the island. Fortunately, the AC >> had the presence of mind to point out that peer-reviewed scientific >> papers are rather better encyclopedia sources than Rush Limbaugh >> show transcripts. And the expert in question also happens to be a >> rather good Wikipedian. Abd's proposed rule is pathologically >> anti-expert and would be disastrous for Wikipedia's content and its >> production process. - d. > Oh, no, not that article, the site of long-running, unresolved > disputes that never go away! And having just seen this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abd-William_M._Connolley/Evidence - I gain insight into your proposal. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
