Re: [WikiEN-l] An expert's perspective - Tim Bray on editing the XML article

2009-08-15 Thread Charles Matthews
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I'm chary of experts determining what sources are reliable, as Carcharoth suggests. There are two meanings for reliability. Reliability in RS, I claim, depends solely on the publisher, and reliability in this sense is about notability, and certainly not about

Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimbo Wales For Speaker Of House Of Representatives 2012!

2009-08-15 Thread Charles Matthews
Soxred93 wrote: Despite the fact that this guy has many of his facts are wrong, he does have some element of truth. Not only Technically Incorrect, but actually incorrect, and sloppy too. It would be a pernicious meme, that you can't contribute successfully to Wikipedia by getting an

Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimbo Wales For Speaker Of House Of Representatives 2012!

2009-08-15 Thread David Gerard
2009/8/15 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: Not only Technically Incorrect, but actually incorrect, and sloppy too. It would be a pernicious meme, that you can't contribute successfully to Wikipedia by getting an account, reading the instructions, and doing your best.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Drafting - was Re: Civility poll results

2009-08-15 Thread FT2
Actually the redirect isnt much of an issue. Moves from draft to mainspace leaving a redirect are harmless (or indeed beneficial, they show where the draft ended up to anyone checking it) Moves from mainspace to draft are usually going to be due to being deemed inadequate at AFD, or possibly

Re: [WikiEN-l] An expert's perspective - Tim Bray on editing the XML article

2009-08-15 Thread David Gerard
2009/8/15 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: At 05:01 PM 8/14/2009, you wrote:  Even quite patient experts have a limited tolerance for idiocy. For an extreme case, look at the first global warming arbitration case, where the cranks got together to try to get one of the UK's top