[WikiEN-l] Re: [googlealerts-noreply-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org: Google Alert - wikipedia]

Fri Sep 10 22:36:13 UTC 2004

Walter Vermeir wrote:

> http://www.bizreport.com/news/7945/

I find this article kind of weird.  Larry Sangers takes issue with the 
current state of the philosophy articles, some of which he started, 
claiming they've gone backwards.  However, the philosophy articles Larry 
Sanger started were, at the time he wrote them, by and large, utter 
crap, essentially cut and pasted from his lecture notes, filled with 
colloquialisms, outright biases, and no attempt to make them into 
paragraphs or any sort of coherent style.  They're now mostly at least 
decent.  Compare the abysmal 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalism/Larry%27s_text --- which 
doesn't even mention the existence of non-reductive physicalism, 
currently the most active research area! --- with the current 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalism, which at least gets its basic 
definitions reasonably close to correct.

It's also odd that Larry is said to have "co-founded" Wikipedia, which 
AFAIK he did not.

-Mark