Comments on: Bored? Policy-weary? Write something. http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/11/01/bored-policy-weary-write-something/ arrogant pontification Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:18:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Matthew Brown http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/11/01/bored-policy-weary-write-something/comment-page-1/#comment-3420 Matthew Brown Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:47:58 +0000 http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/11/01/bored-policy-weary-write-something/#comment-3420 Excellent advice, David. I've always lamented the way too many people don't look beyond the obvious and realize that Wikipedia is far away from finished, even in terms of article titles. Our coverage of the commercial world is lamentable, but I wouldn't encourage new editors to contribute there; there's too much of a 'Commercial! That means spam! Kill it!' attitude among our admins and would-be admin goldfarmers. Also note that there is an astonishing amount of stuff available in copyright-expired books, through e.g. Google Books. Beware that scholarship may have advanced since then in academic subjects, of course. Excellent advice, David. I’ve always lamented the way too many people don’t look beyond the obvious and realize that Wikipedia is far away from finished, even in terms of article titles.

Our coverage of the commercial world is lamentable, but I wouldn’t encourage new editors to contribute there; there’s too much of a ‘Commercial! That means spam! Kill it!’ attitude among our admins and would-be admin goldfarmers.

Also note that there is an astonishing amount of stuff available in copyright-expired books, through e.g. Google Books. Beware that scholarship may have advanced since then in academic subjects, of course.

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