Re: [xml-dev] Recent allegations about me

• From: Rick Marshall <rjm@...>
• To: Len Bullard <cbullard@...>
• Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:31:37 +1100

This discussion seems to have forgotten some of the alleged facts

Microsoft isn't allowed to edit the entry in question (never quite 
understood that point)
At any rate an independent person seemed to be a fairer way to do it

Q. Do you want the independent person to be an unpaid zealot or a paid, 
well regarded member of the industry?
The implication is that Microsoft wants to bend the truth and at any 
rate can't be trusted. That's not black and white - the courts have 
already determined Microsoft can't be trusted on all matters, but not 
this particular matter.

Q. How do we know the other entries haven't been paid for?

Q. When we edited the wikipedia entry  for Roger, the work was done by 
daughter - what if I said I paid her (a student) to do it? Does that 
make the entry tainted, or did we just encourage a young engineering 
student to take an interest?

Storm in a teacup.

Keep up the good work Rick.

Rick

Len Bullard wrote:
> Where I live, lowly Alabama, Wikipedia cannot be used for high school
> research papers.
>
> That's unfair too but is that the only alternative to being unable to
> distinguish good from bad sources?  What would be the advantage to multiple
> resources?  
>
> len
>
>
> From: Amelia A Lewis [mailto:amyzing@...] 
>
> Interestingly, the one study that I saw cited on this subject 
> indicated that academics and professionals generally counted wikipedia 
> as sufficiently accurate in their own fields, but doubted its accuracy 
> in other fields.
>
>
>
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