One could also comment that the citations added in the climate change section are to major scientific organisations in Australia and internationally.
Sent from my iPad On 25/10/2013, at 9:07 AM, Kerry Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > The article has had a lot of edits in the past week and the climate change > section looks like it has been added after the Greg Hunt story. I note a few > familiar usernames in the edit history as well as IPs. some reverting has > occurred. > > How to phrase it ... Hmm ... I think a key point is that WP is a living > encyclopedia and events (being both the current bush fires themselves and the > Greg Hunt statement) focus attention onto those parts of WP, which results in > them being updated and improved. In that regard some recent edits have added > information about the relationship between climate change and bush fires > including citations. WP's role is not to tell people whether or not to > believe in climate change but to present the best quality summary of factual > information (with citations for people who want to dig deeper) and let people > make up their own minds. Greg Hunt has made up his mind in one way, others > may come to different conclusions. We are delighted that Greg Hunt regards WP > as an authoritative source but we would urge all readers to read the cited > material if they need a detailed knowledge of a topic on which to make > important decisions. > > Sent from my iPad > > On 25/10/2013, at 8:43 AM, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Good morning :-) >> >> I've just been called by the producer for ABC702 morning show (presenter is >> Linda Mottram) and asked to talk on radio sometime between 10 and 10:30 >> about Wikipedia's errors, how we improve the contet etc, etc, - in the >> context of the recent bushfire / Greg Hunt story in the media. >> >> I can obviously talk about how we get better and that we don't pretend to be >> perfect and that we encourage people to check the footnote and make their >> own assessment... But can someone please advise on the best way to phrase >> how the specific article [[Bushfires in Australia]] appeared last week and >> what has changed? I see there is a "climate change" section - was that >> already there a few days ago? (I can check the history when I get to the >> office, on my mobile at the moment, wanted to write to you straight away). >> >> Any advice, ideas? I recall there being a userspace proposal on the chapter >> wiki - can someone point me to that again and advise if you think it's >> appropriate for me to try to quote? >> >> Sincerely, >> -Liam >> >> >> >> -- >> wittylama.com >> Peace, love & metadata >> >> >> >> -- >> wittylama.com >> Peace, love & metadata >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
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