7th September 2006, 12:58 PM
Sparky's right Oxbeast.
The idea that it was 'nutters' who wrote incomprehensible drivel all over a historic monument is wild speculation on your part. Did you have the inscriptions dated? They could just as easily be further evidence of the giant blood-drinking lizardine influence on monasticism in medieval Britain.
Wandering back on topic, my principal concerns are related to accuracy and opinion. While the moderators can remove anything hateful, will they really have time to check the details of every entry ? People make mistakes, and making entries on Wikkipedia is something people commonly do when they are tired and should really be going to bed. The opinion aspect is usually more obvious and shouldn't be as much of a problem, but it would be helpful to have entries explicitly flagged up by paradyme as well as by subject:
a structural marxist approach to medieval manour houses
kingship in Cambodia from an ecological perspective
Late Classical Greece: developments in post-giant blood-drinking lizardist theory
etc.
Just a thought. Everyone having to decide what to call themselves might be considered a weakness though. An alternative would be to state the contributer's credentials.
The idea that it was 'nutters' who wrote incomprehensible drivel all over a historic monument is wild speculation on your part. Did you have the inscriptions dated? They could just as easily be further evidence of the giant blood-drinking lizardine influence on monasticism in medieval Britain.
Wandering back on topic, my principal concerns are related to accuracy and opinion. While the moderators can remove anything hateful, will they really have time to check the details of every entry ? People make mistakes, and making entries on Wikkipedia is something people commonly do when they are tired and should really be going to bed. The opinion aspect is usually more obvious and shouldn't be as much of a problem, but it would be helpful to have entries explicitly flagged up by paradyme as well as by subject:
a structural marxist approach to medieval manour houses
kingship in Cambodia from an ecological perspective
Late Classical Greece: developments in post-giant blood-drinking lizardist theory
etc.
Just a thought. Everyone having to decide what to call themselves might be considered a weakness though. An alternative would be to state the contributer's credentials.