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"You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated.  After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it." — Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
This principle, applied to a project where everyone and anyone can be an editor, explains a lot about Wikipeedya.
 

Date: 2011-11-17 09:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] duncanmac.livejournal.com
This does *not* surprise me.

You may be interested in viewing this discussion page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Plasma_cosmology). [Or, then again, you may not.]

Date: 2011-11-17 09:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] duncanmac.livejournal.com
I suspect that this open letter (http://cosmologystatement.org/) was, in part, triggered by the row over that page.

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