Nicholas Bodley <nbodley at speakeasy dot net> wrote:

> On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:14:57 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
> <grammatim@...> wrote:
> [...]
>> claim that there is no truth and no such thing as expertise.
>
> Intellectual cancer.

But not the premise of Wikipedia. The premise is that truth and
expertise can come from a variety of sources, not all of whom have
degrees and formal titles.

I've never contributed a thing to Wikipedia where I wasn't certain of my
ability to improve on the truth and expertise contained therein. Sadly,
not everyone takes that responsibility as seriously. This is the
Internet, after all.

--
Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/