[WikiEN-l] Larry's text is being unfairly criticised

Sat Apr 19 19:19:45 UTC 2003

Rotem Dan wrote:

>19.  An educational textbook. Though Wikipedia
>attempts to explain many non-trivial scientific and
>philosophical topics, articles should not be written
>merely with the intention of teaching the subject,
>this is what book references are for.
>
>
>I plan to add more refinements to the policies and
>rules in the next weeks.
>
The subtleties which Rotem seeks to apply appear to be beyond my grasp. 
 Most of us would probably not make a distinction between an educational 
and an encyclopedic article.  IMHO the two would have such a 
considerable overlap to the point where a distinction verges on the 
meaningless.

I believe that I echo the thoughts of several other Wikipedians across 
the POV spectrum when I say that Rotem's time would be better spent 
working on the [[knowledge]] article that he criticizes and not on 
endless debates on the minutiae of Wikipedia theory.

Ec