On 31 Oct 2006, at 01:52, Larry Sanger wrote: > These templates are used inconsistently, and, more to the point, it > seems > impossible to use them consistently. If they should be anywhere, they > should be on the talk pages. I think that, with editors and a content > dispute resolution process (under construction), we ought to be > able to get > rid of all such tags, or maybe move them to the talk pages, > although I'd > prefer to just get rid of them.
There are several interrelated problems and effects. Certainly, errors in grammar are not of the same importance as errors in fact, so a general warning has significant limits. Next, the removal of the warning by editorial approval does give a great deal of power to editors. It in effect says, there are no errors. Those pages would tend to 'freeze'. For evolution of a page, both before and after approval, specific objections directed to specific text could be useful. This could be indicated by different colors or type faces, that would link to a page giving the objection. One way to overcome the consistency problem is to formalize a several 'fatal' objections: false, logically incomplete, a joke, etc. Then, those misusing them would damage their reputations and could be 'corrected' by constables, if necessary. My thoughts here are derived from a model published a while back. I am not sure it is compatible with the proposed architecture, but it does deal comprehensively with problems of this type: Abstract: Stodolsky, D. S. (2002). Computer-network based democracy: Scientific communication as a basis for governance. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge Management in e-Government, 7, 127-137. http://dss.secureid.org/stories/storyReader$14 Comprehensive: Stodolsky, D. S. (1995). Consensus Journals: Invitational journals based upon peer review. The Information Society, 11(4). [1994 version in N. P. Gleditsch, P. H. Enckell, & J. Burchardt (Eds.), Det videnskabelige tidsskrift (The scientific journal) (pp. 151-160). Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers. (Tema NORD 1994: 574)] http://dss.secureid.org/stories/storyReader$19 dss David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: davidstodolsky _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
