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| EricBarbour |
 Wed 12th May 2010, 7:54am
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Yet another example of the profound idiocy of "crowdsourcing" encyclopedia articles.
You have the WP bio of Hans Bethe, legendary atomic scientist, Nobel winner. 8 notes, 3 references, total length 27034 bytes. And you have the WP bio of a fictional scientist on a sitcom, Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory. 75 references, total length 43670 bytes. And no doubt, many of the Wiki-assholes reading this will go "that's perfectly acceptable". |
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| Moulton |
Fri 14th May 2010, 10:01am
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 Anthropologist from Mars Group: Contributors Posts: 10,220 Joined: Mon 29th Oct 2007, 9:56pm From: Greater Boston Member No.: 3,670 WP user page - talk check - contribs |
If Newton were alive today, he would not be allowed to write the article on The Calculus.
If Einstein were alive today, he would not be allowed to write the article on Relativity. I know a few people who are subject matter experts in their chosen fields, who similarly cannot write the Wikipedia article on their subject. But they are often invited to write the Scholarpedia article on their subject. |
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EricBarbour Disparity of biography articles Wed 12th May 2010, 7:54am
Peter Damian
Yet another example of the profound idiocy of ... Wed 12th May 2010, 8:48am A Horse With No Name
Yet another example of the profound idiocy of ... Wed 12th May 2010, 12:58pm Tarc
Yet another example of the profound idiocy of ... Wed 12th May 2010, 2:32pm
Peter Damian
Wait, so you mean that on the internet, people gr... Wed 12th May 2010, 4:44pm Milton Roe
Wait, so you mean that on the internet, people g... Wed 12th May 2010, 5:00pm Sxeptomaniac
[quote name='Tarc' post='236262' date='Wed 12th M... Wed 12th May 2010, 5:14pm dogbiscuit
I would question what things that should be can r... Wed 12th May 2010, 6:01pm Sxeptomaniac
[quote name='Sxeptomaniac' post='236288' date='We... Thu 13th May 2010, 7:55pm Peter Damian
There are issues on WP that concern me, particul... Thu 13th May 2010, 8:10pm Sxeptomaniac
[quote name='Sxeptomaniac' post='236421' date='Th... Thu 13th May 2010, 10:38pm Peter Damian
The readers would tend to be those more ignorant ... Fri 14th May 2010, 6:30am everyking
When the culture and environment is inimical to s... Fri 14th May 2010, 8:14am Sxeptomaniac
[quote name='Sxeptomaniac' post='236439' date='Th... Fri 14th May 2010, 5:45pm ulsterman
After all, a big part of being an expert is knowi... Sat 15th May 2010, 4:33pm everyking
After all, a big part of being an expert is know... Sat 15th May 2010, 5:31pm KD Tries Again
[quote name='ulsterman' post='236635' date='Sat 1... Sat 29th May 2010, 3:05pm Milton Roe
[quote name='ulsterman' post='236635' date='Sat ... Sat 29th May 2010, 4:47pm anthony
Personally, I don't think there's any rea... Sat 15th May 2010, 7:27pm Moulton Accept what WP is, and use it in that vein, or don... Wed 12th May 2010, 6:07pm Peter Damian
I am willing to accept that WP will always be bes... Thu 13th May 2010, 11:09am Moulton And do we have to accept that it can't be chan... Thu 13th May 2010, 11:42am EricBarbour Wikipedia's problems are not much different fr... Wed 12th May 2010, 7:08pm Encyclopedist
Wikipedia's problems are not much different f... Wed 8th February 2012, 12:46am Vigilant
[quote name='EricBarbour' post='236303' date='Wed... Wed 8th February 2012, 12:49am ulsterman
Yet another example of the profound idiocy of ... Wed 12th May 2010, 9:43pm CharlotteWebb When I saw the thread title I expected to read the... Thu 13th May 2010, 12:59am everyking
Yet another example of the profound idiocy of ... Thu 13th May 2010, 4:25am gomi [quote name='EricBarbour' post='236232' date='Wed ... Thu 13th May 2010, 5:33am everyking
No one would think that's "acceptable... Thu 13th May 2010, 6:47am taiwopanfob All right: "Oh, that's no good; that arti... Thu 13th May 2010, 9:58am Moulton It's just another demonstration of the thesis ... Thu 13th May 2010, 8:51am Moulton There really isn't any good reason for a resea... Fri 14th May 2010, 7:12pm EricBarbour Sheldon Cooper is now 80k bytes, 110 references.
... Fri 25th November 2011, 2:39am Maunus
[wparticle]Sheldon Cooper is now 80k bytes, 110 r... Mon 5th December 2011, 7:04pm thekohser
The problem is not that stupidity exists, but tha... Mon 5th December 2011, 9:15pm Maunus
[quote name='Maunus' post='290198' date='Mon 5th ... Mon 5th December 2011, 10:45pm Detective
[quote name='Maunus' post='290198' date='Mon 5th ... Tue 6th December 2011, 9:33pm Ottava Sheldon has 275,658 while Hans has only 6,611.
Th... Fri 25th November 2011, 3:33am Kevin
Sheldon has 275,658 while Hans has only 6,611.
T... Fri 25th November 2011, 4:24am The Joy
[url=http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Sheldon_Coop... Fri 25th November 2011, 5:13am |
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