I have been one of several people who has removed some contributions on
Erwin Komenda.
My issues have been not that I disagree with the assertion that Erwin
Komenda was more responsible for the designs from Ferdinand Porsche's
engineering consultancy pre-1945, and the Porsche car company post-1945,
than he has generally been credited for. There's certainly a reasonable
case to be made there.
My problems with this have been:
* There is no need for this information to be posted scattershot on every
page associated with Porsche
* There has been no attempt to fit the text in with the articles - instead
it's the same cut and paste text placed in each one
* The net effect has been to make Wikipedia's articles on the subjects read
as if we're pushing an agenda instead of documenting encyclopedically
* Attempts to engage this user in discussion have been utterly and
completely ignored. Possibly out of simply not understanding Wikipedia all
that well.
* Some of the edits have had the effect of (in my opinion) overstating the
importance of Komenda and denying the input of others
One might note that I spent a fair amount of effort making Erwin Komenda's
article better, improving the wording and grammar.
I must confess a little bit of bias against a user who doesn't create a
username and doesn't engage in discussion. In the spirit of Assume Good
Faith, I will presume that these have been due to lack of knowledge of the
way Wikipedia works.
I am certainly not anti her point; I am against some of the ways she is
presenting her case, and would like to work with her to make the articles as
fair and accurate as we can.
Should I email her directly, do you think?
-Matt (User:Morven)