On Jan 5, 2013 1:03 AM, "George Herbert" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] >
George, sorry about implying you didn't. Ill follow up with a smarter response later. _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
