Re: The Wikipedia FAQK

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:40:46 -0700, veritas <khogantwo@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Jun 24, 6:05 pm, David Johnston <d...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:59:51 GMT, Joe Bednorz





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On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:42:59 +0000, Paul Arthur wrote in
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On 2007-06-23, Joe Bednorz <inva...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:56:48 +0000, Paul Arthur wrote in
<slrnf7orug.7u5.floweryson...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Don't you have anything original to say? Endless reposting of other
peoples' insights into Wikipedia are not extremely helpful.

Wikipedia forbids original research. Wikipedia blindly serves up
other people's opinions. I'm doing at least that well.

Anyone willing to doubt Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, Patrick Nielsen
Hayden, and Teresa Nielsen Hayden is not going to care about my opinion.

Have you heard about this wonderful new logical fallacy that was
discovered the other day? It's called the "appeal to authority".

There's nothing fallacious about appealing to authority.

Not quite true. There's nothing fallacious about invoking the word of
an expert in a subject when trying to establish a fact. However there
is something very fallacious about invoking the authority of a famous
name to support a value judgement. What does it matter whether
Ellison or Gaiman dislike Wikipedia? Heck they're both demanding and
disputatious fellas who want everything just so. But they aren't
experts speaking in a field of their expertise about something
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David,
You don't know what my field of expertise is, so how would you
know?

Well I know you're stupid enough to think we were talking about you
when you were never mentioned.
.

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