Oh, I will, just not right now. Wrong computer. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:09 PM, The Cunctator <cuncta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sometimes I don't understand people. Carcharoth goes to the trouble of > finding his birth date, learning he received the Brazilian Order of Merit, > and lists out some copy errors, but then doesn't fix the page? > > I mean, what's the point? > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Carcharoth > <carcharot...@googlemail.com>wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Sarah Ewart <sarahew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:46 PM, George Herbert < >> george.herb...@gmail.com>wrote: >> > >> >> Where was Robert Corell's article previously? Perhaps my search was >> >> inadequate but I didn't find it looking quickly... >> > >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Corell >> >> And no-one has yet created a redirect? >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Corell >> >> He also received the [[Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit]] (I got >> that from "what links here", and then went looking for a source to >> confirm that). >> >> http://www.mct.gov.br/index.php/content/view/11199.html >> >> And from here (IEEE Transactions on Geoscience Electronics, November 1968): >> >> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=04043245 >> >> You can get his birth year (1934) and day (4 November) and other details. >> >> But that is a lucky find. Most sources don't say when he was born, and >> that is generally an indication that comprehensive biographical >> material is scarce, which in turn implies that no-one else has yet >> really written a comprehensive biography. >> >> Which comes back to the point of whether Wikipedia should be the first >> to do so (we can produce something similar to the mini-biographies >> already out there, such as the four that The Cunctator found, which >> are either institutional bios, or conference bios, but we can't go >> beyond that until other sources do, which is generally towards the end >> of someone's career, or at the point when obituaries are written). >> >> It also looks like it was rescued in a rush, six errors in grammar or >> composition: >> >> "is prominent climate scientist" >> "and he formerly as a" >> "to ManyOne Networks, the and Chair" >> "funding global change research" >> The "sustainable development" header has stray formatting >> "and international partnership" >> >> I wonder how many years it would have been before someone copyedited >> it to fix those problems? I guess we will never know now. But this >> feeds into my point about whether such articles should be brought to a >> minimum standard, instead of roughly referenced along with a lot of >> others ones being worked on at the same time, and then the people >> doing this rough-and-ready referencing moving on to other articles? >> >> My standards would be to ensure minimum copyediting standards have >> been met, that the birth year has been found and securely referenced, >> and that a standalone biography (even if only a mini-biography from >> who they work for, or a conference biography, or some form of press >> release) is found and used as a reference. >> >> Carcharoth >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >
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