[WikiEN-l] A danger of massive homework and research requests

Thu Jan 29 17:18:33 UTC 2004

I am also interested in ocean currents although I
know nothing about them.

Recently I wrote [[Cromwell current]]. May you
check it for correctness and improve it? thnx.

--Optim .'.

--- "KNOTT, T" <TKNOTT at qcl.org.uk> wrote:
> As the Guilty party who answered the question.
> I have to say that I checked out the wikipedia
> article on the Gulf stream and found it to be
> rather lacking. There were no details such as
> flow rate, average temp, etc. No false colour
> maps. No history of who discovered it etc.
> 
> As a result of answering the child's HW
> question I've added gulf stream and all the
> other ocean currents to my to do list and will
> be improving them shortly. The thing is, has
> the question not been asked I probably would
> never have looked at the page. SO although I
> agree that there is a danger of setting a
> precedent and I do see your point I have to
> disagree that allowing HW questions on this
> list is necessarily a bad thing. 
> 
> Theresa 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert [mailto:rkscience100 at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: 28 January 2004 21:41
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] A danger of massive
> homework and research requests
> 
> >But there is a great danger
> to directly answering questions like these: In
> a short
> amount of time Wikipedia might become known as
> a place
> where people can mail in requests for info, and
> then we
> will be flooded with thousands of requests each
> month for
> help on homework and research. We'd get
> questions from
> people in junior high, high school, and
> college.
> 
> 
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