Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Ratings

[Tom Chance]

It has been explicitly stated many times that:
*) We will NOT have "editors" on the Gnupedia subject
*) If you want editorship, whilst keeping with the
various "Free" ideals, go to Nupedia where they are
doing just that, and very well I might add.

If a fact is as erroneous as you mentioned, I'm sure
it wouldn't get put into the resource if you had a
system whereby every article needs only one "yes vote"
to get in from moderators who have been elected by
submitting four decent articles. Only a cretin would
think that JFK was born then. For minor details, like
a year off, or even a month or days, you would need a
very good editorship who would have to research the
area extensively first to pick up such areas. In
effect you'd need as many editors as authors, to
compliment the authors.

Tom Chance


--- Daniel Sanford <address@hidden> wrote: > I
disagree with your final statement that we should
> cater for the
> brainwashed people in this world. Firstly, none of
> us know to what extent we
> ourselves are brainwashed. Secondly, I wish to find
> accurate information in
> an encyclopaedia, and I am disappointed to find
> errors which I myself can
> detect. If an article submitted contains obviously
> erroneous material (e.g.
> "John F. Kennedy was born 1817"), I feel it should
> be referred to correction
> before being published. Debatable material and
> opinions should be marked as
> such. For this (at least in some cases), we need
> editors.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Chance" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Samstag, 20. Januar 2001 18:12
> Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Ratings
> 
> 
> > Yeah any marking that is based on how accurate or
> > truthful an article is, is a very very bad idea.
> It
> > will yet again further marginalise views that may
> not
> > be common thought (like the light bulb, or the
> Chinese
> > version of Tianemen Square as cited earlier). No
> > matter how wrong a slant is on something (unless
> it is
> > patently factually wrong to the point of being
> > rubbish, like an article claiming the 2nd World
> War
> > ended on D-Day when the Americans landed in
> Britain
> > and the French rose up) it should be given the
> same
> > importance on the site as any other. I think the
> > readers will be intelligent enough to work out the
> > truth from the spin. And if they're not, then they
> > really need to be, and I don't think we should
> cater
> > for the brainwashed people in this world.
> >
> > Tom
> 
> 
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