On 26 October 2012 14:51, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote:
> As a bit of personal advice, I have to say something brutally honest: > The problem of amateurs/experts dynamics in Wikipedia is one that I > care quite strongly about, and I would really like to see productive > discussion about it. However, threats of retiring or deleting own > contributions never help move such discussion forward. As much as I > understand the feeling, expressing it this way simply doesn't work. > Again, it's a pattern that repeated itself with academics from USA, > Portugal, Israel, Russia and other countries, and from fields as > diverse as Political Science, Education and Engineering. It would be > much more useful to understand the current policies and practices, to > try to identify particular flaws in them and to propose constructive > changes. It also helps to understand the reason for the "no original research" rule and not citing oneself: the crank problem is real, and vast. As a working academic scientist, you would have a green ink file *this* big. It's worse at Wikipedia. Hence the citation culture. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
