[Cz-biology] FW: Major misconception in "Biology" article

David Goodman dgoodmanny at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 21:20:21 CST 2008


It's only fair to Nancy to point out that most of us were very pleased with
her overall approach to the article, which was one of our very earliest
important articles. And some changes did get made in response to comments.
 But nobody has every really been correct in all details, which is the great
advantage of all community writing projects. When combined with expert
editing, we can deal with accuracy and improvements --we are still
pioneering how to combine the various elements of t he project.

On Jan 2, 2008 8:17 PM, Larry Sanger <sanger at citizendium.org> wrote:

> I'm sorry to hear this.  Well, Nancy is no long with us, so we can make
> the
> necessary changes now, and if indeed she or anyone prevented others from
> making necessary changes, or pretended to "own" an article, let that be a
> cautionary tale for us (but nothing more than that).
>
> --Larry
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cz-biology-bounces at mail.citizendium.org
> > [mailto:cz-biology-bounces at mail.citizendium.org] On Behalf Of
> > Chris Day
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:09 PM
> > To: Biology Workgroup List
> > Subject: Re: [Cz-biology] FW: Major misconception in "Biology" article
> >
> >
> > > All, please look into this complaint!
> > Larry, you may well remember that Nancy, despite her claims
> > to the contrary, owned this article.  You'll remember the misuse
> > of Einstein too. There are some points in a collaboration
> > where trying to persude with logic just become a waste of time. Since
> > we never even got past Einstein when Nancy was around this
> > didn't even make it to the agenda. I agree with the critique.
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