On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 5, 2013 12:51 AM, "George Herbert" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:05 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 4 January 2013 17:56, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> 1a. Do *not* pick a source that you have a particularly close personal > or >> >> emotional connection to: it is not good to start with your own > research, >> >> your supervisor's or colleague's research, a project of yours or that > you're >> >> involved with, a nationalist/political/religious subject you feel > strongly >> >> about, the history of your own family, etc. >> > >> > >> > This can be a problem in that people will become interested first in >> > fixing something they think is wrong because they know about it. I do >> > realise all the steps from that to here, and that a list of >> > instructions pretty much won't be read. >> >> Along the lines of noneuclidian geometry... >> >> What if we experiment (at least conceptually) with inverting that >> instruction? Encourage people to write on subjects they know... >> >> Normal people won't be so much of an expert that using their own >> professional or academic work as a reference is even applicable. >> >> Actual experts, we can include a "Please cite your sources, rather >> than your own work, thanks!" and leave it at that. >> >> Actual experts who fail to heed that are a problem, but a much smaller >> and easier to communicate with and explain problem than the no-newbies >> one. >> . >> > > Please resubmit this suggestion after three hours of AfC work
You think I haven't done hours (days, weeks, at one point a month) worth of AfC work? I thought AfC was a great place to ramp up my WP skills when I was getting in sync. Pick something I knew about but not enough to write an article, go research it, zap. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
