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Re: [Bug-gne]Right/Wrong if editorship in GNE/Nupedia


From: Tom Chance
Subject: Re: [Bug-gne]Right/Wrong if editorship in GNE/Nupedia
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:04:28 -0800 (PST)

Thats also a good point. And I agree, if people think
they can write a better version, they can just go and
do it. And if an author thinks it needs to be better,
there can be volunteers to *help* them. Help being the
important word.

Tom


--- Christopher Mahan <address@hidden> wrote:
> What I'd like to know is what happens when the
> author get 3,000 emails from 
> every Dick, Joe, and Bill's attorneys about changing
> this comma, this 
> heading, this sentence.
> 
> And I could have a couple of buddies just log on and
> "accept" my article.
> 
> If someone has a beef with an article, let them
> write their own, hopefully 
> better. I would rather have both these people's
> views.
> 
> If I write an article about the Renaissance in 15th
> Century Europe, I 
> guarantee that no matter what I write, or no matter
> how well researched and 
> "solid" my article is, I'll get upward of a thousand
> emails asking me to 
> rewrite it. And that will make me use my junk mail
> filter more, because I 
> just won't read any more than the first 3 and
> dsimiss the whole thing with a 
> shrug and a "If you want to write an article like
> that, be my guest" 
> attitude.
> 
> As far as editing, that's a great idea. I think that
> we should have a pool 
> of volunteer editors that authors can contact. Even
> better, the GNE system 
> should allow the author to designate one or more
> editor for the article, 
> with the final "Publish" button for the author only.
> People willing to edit articles then could make
> themselves available, via an 
> editors listing, for example, to be contacted
> directly by the authors. They 
> would have to work with each other for remuneration,
> if any.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Tom Chance <address@hidden>
> >
> >But GNE really isn't about being a web index. The
> >thing about the web is that it is full of so much
> >useless info, people's tacky homepages and
> corporate
> >adverts, that finding information on any topic is
> >impossible, even with the best of the search
> engines
> >and web directories available.
> >
> >GNE would become a directory of information, all
> with
> >the same layout etc. and all carefully presented in
> an
> >easy to access way, and easy to search. The
> articles
> >themselves will obviously pass an "acceptance
> stage"
> >whereby they will need at least 1 or 2 people to
> vote
> >"yes" for an article to be submitted (with either
> no
> >"reject" option, or a very limited one). So you
> won't
> >get complete drivel, but they will not be edited
> and
> >so the whole resource will hopefully over time
> carry
> >no central bias. If people aren't sure about the
> >quality of their writing etc. we can offer helpers,
> so
> >you send the work to them, they send back to you an
> >ammended copy, and you submit your ammended copy
> >taking into account the suggestions of the helper.
> But
> >this is quite different from actually editing the
> >work, as here the author gets the final say and the
> >"helper" won't get to rework the direction of the
> >article.
> 
>
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