Wikipedia is very good in some ways, but it has one great
failing: Once something is up, it is quite hard to modify it.
One can try but the people in charge are resistant to change.
Thus outrageous errors and omissions persist.
For example, some of the material on small room acoustics was clearly
written by people who are selling passive treatment devices
and took good care to bad-mouth DSP room correction in
fallacious ways. I tried to make changes
in this with little success.
As in war, a la Nathan Bedford Forrest, one attains victory
by "getting their first with the most men".
Once someone has jumped in with an article, even one
that is higly prejudiced or even flat out wrong, it is
not easy to rectifiy the situation.(this is also true about
mathematics, where the fast fingered got in there early
to be sure that their own work received the lion's share of the
attributions of credit. One can rely on Wikip. only if
all the players are dead long since--and not even then,
as one sees about Blumlein).
Robert
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Martin Leese wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
Unbelievably, I have just seen that Wikipedia gives no mention to Alan
Blumlein in its article on sound recording and reproduction at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_recording_and_reproduction#Stereo_and_hi-fi
if I have time I'll correct this, but......if anyone else wants to...
Somebody pointed this out on the
corresponding Talk page way back in
February 2007. Whoever fixes this should also
add a "Done" note at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sound_recording_and_reproduction#Alan_Blumlein
Regards,
Martin
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Martin J Leese
E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org
Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/
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