In a message dated 9/21/2010 12:11:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time, peter.dam...@btinternet.com writes:
> I brought it up because Johnson was insisting that someone > without formal training in the humanities could write an article just as > well as someone with formal training. Peter I'm finding it hard to comprehend why you fail to understand my meaning so often. I never stated nor even insinuated that "someone without formal training in the humanities could write an article just as well as someone with formal training." I would point out however that I think you mean "in their field" as well, since a person with "formal training in the humanities" whatever you think that implies, could not write an article on nuclear interactions as well as someone with "formal training in nuclear science". Or wait... perhaps they could, but that's another point isn't it? What I actually stated or implied was that any editor could *modify* an existing article, by adding details which are not in it, or editing the copy for style, tense, usage. Fixing spelling errors, and so on. Any editor can modify an article, any editor can create a stub article. Editors with no real comprehension of what wider scope an article might have, can still spot articles which seem to be written in a flowery or aggressive style. That takes no "formal training in the humanities". Rather it takes a sense of logic, balance, flow. Which applies to all writing, not just writing on the humanities. It's hardly fair for you to pick at an article that I was in the middle of updating, with bits and pieces that I found here and there, in a rather haphazard way, as is my wont when I'm *researching*, and then declare that I don't know how to write. (How's that for a run-on sentence, Ma?) But Peter, this is not about *me*, this is about the project, which has rejected, and will continue to reject, the concept that experts get a "pass" on citing their sources :)~~~ No one gets a pass, if that pisses off some experts, then those are exactly the sort of trouble makers we do not want. Will Johnson _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
