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

[Tom Chance]

What if you let the author re-submit a correction. So
if you saw an article you thought was factually wrong,
you can send a message to the author (via email,
anonymously so you can't get the address perhaps, or
an in-site message system?) with your corrections.
Because its very hard to judge when something is
wrong, and when somebody just disagrees. But factually
wrong articles (and out of date ones) would need
attention, in the case you said for instance.

Tom Chance

--- Hook <address@hidden> wrote: > 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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