Re: [Foundation-l] Organization on Wikipedia that deals with content issues.

2010-08-30 Thread David Gerard
On 31 August 2010 00:55, David Gerard wrote: > On 31 August 2010 00:21, John Vandenberg wrote: >> Irony.  David Gerard disparaging CZ using a rationalwiki page as evidence. > The links are there if you want to read them. Or, if you prefer: of course the wiki is fluff and amusement with a huge

Re: [Foundation-l] Organization on Wikipedia that deals with content issues.

2010-08-30 Thread David Gerard
On 31 August 2010 00:21, John Vandenberg wrote: > Irony.  David Gerard disparaging CZ using a rationalwiki page as evidence. The links are there if you want to read them. > Pseudo-science, pseudo-humanities, etc are no stranger to Wikipedia, > and our processes have not always been victorious

Re: [Foundation-l] Organization on Wikipedia that deals with content issues.

2010-08-30 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:35 AM, David Gerard wrote: > ...This, btw, is how Citizendium > became a pseudoscience haven: > > http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Citizendium#The_concept_of_expertise_on_Citizendium On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:57 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 29 August 2010 17:52, David Moran

Re: [Foundation-l] Organization on Wikipedia that deals with content issues.

2010-08-30 Thread Peter Damian
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pro_hominem&oldid=369721624 - Original Message - From: "Fred Bauder" > It's a simple error that most proof-readers would find. Well only if they can read Latin, which is not that usual these days. >>It looks right at first glance but is not. I

Re: [Foundation-l] Organization on Wikipedia that dealswithcontentissues.

2010-08-30 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 23:52, Andrea Zanni wrote: > From what I've experienced, it is generally more difficult to explain these > things to humanities scholars > that stm scholars. As someone with background in humanities, I can say that it is often hard to explain science to humanities scholars

Re: [Foundation-l] Organization on Wikipedia that dealswithcontentissues.

2010-08-30 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 08/29/2010 11:52 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > And I was wondering if Wikipedia, limiting the article to one, single and > neutral version, > is enough to some Humanities scholars, who maybe would prefer the > possibility of > many articles/monographies, one for interpretation. There are no policie