On 8 May 2014 19:27, Anthony Cole <ahcole...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with those above who highlight the flaws in the current scholarly > peer-review process. If enWikipedia is to embrace scholarly review (and we > should) we need to confront and address the well-known problems with peer > review in today's scholarship.
While acknowledging the likely truth of the flaws in scientific knowledge production as it stands (single studies in medicine being literally useless, as 80% are actually wrong) ... I think you'll have a bit of an uphill battle attempting to enforce stronger standards in Wikipedia than exist in the field itself. We could go to requiring all medical sourced to be Cochrane-level studies of studies of studies, but then you need to convince everyone else to delete the entirety of the long tail of articles that won't yet have those. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
