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


From: Hook
Subject: Re: [Bug-gne]Right/Wrong if editorship in GNE/Nupedia
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:50:55 +0800

Tom Chance wrote:
> --- Aaron Swartz <address@hidden> wrote: >
> Christopher Mahan <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > If someone has a beef with an article, let them
> > write their own, hopefully
> > > better. I would rather have both these people's
> > views.
> >
> > Or they could correct your article and post the
> > corrected version, right?
> >
> > The GFDL allows this freedom -- won't GNE?
>
> It would be good if people could correct articles and
> post those, but we'd have to be very very careful
> about this, and we can't be careful enough, so its
> unfeasible. What if I posted an article and somebody
> posted a "correction" that I disagreed with. I might
> then get a bit pissed off, and post a corection to
> their article, and so on. The resource could turn into
> a sort of discussion board for people's ideas. I think
> if people want to post another slant on an issue, it
> shouln't be viewed as a correction (because nobody can
> say it is more correct than the original) but rather
> just another article.

That's only partly true though, isn't it?  If I wrote a piece on relativity,
it would have some pretty big mistakes in it, and there are numerous people
capable of pointing out those holes, and of writing something which was
clearly "more correct" than my version.  There are subjects where truth is
often subjective, and others where it's clearly objective.  The hard
sciences tend to orient towards the latter.

So how will GNE cope with articles which are blatantly wrong?

Paul





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