[WikiEN-l] Bad And Wrong Policy/Procedure/Guideline Hitlist

Sun Nov 5 12:51:18 UTC 2006

Robth wrote

> Academic experts are uniquely qualified to judge the relative notability of
> subjects within their area of expertise.  They are also, in general, probably
> not the people we would want to have judging the overall notability of their
> entire area of expertise.  (I do not think I have ever known an academic
> whose estimation of his or her own field's importance was not substantially
> higher than the outside world's estimation of the same.) 

Relevant quote from [[G. H. Hardy]], about a professor's duty to exaggerate his subject's importance, and his importance within it. (Professor here is aimed at a traditional 19thC model.)

Charles 

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