[PW] Grading Wikipedia

[Michael Hart]

On Fri, 4 May 2007, David Klappholz wrote:

> At 06:34 AM 5/4/2007, you wrote:
>> Britannica and Wikipedia are, really entirely different
>> beasts.  Britannica's article are monographs.  Wikipedias are not,
>> at least in principle.
>
> I thought a monograph is an article or book on a single subject; you
> seem to be implying that it's an article or a book written by a
> single individual.
>
>> The values of each are quite different.

The definitions of each might be a little different,
but a value is certainly independent of definition.

An article can be a monograph, a monograph can be an article,
and as much of the definition of monograph is about the author
as is about the limited subject matter.  Since the mono refers
to the subject matter, and not the author, there can be author
or authors to a single monograph.

If the reader is sufficiently myopic, s/he could try to state,
for the record, that from their microscopic perspective, there
was more than one subject included, but this would normally be
filed under "pedantic," "pegagogic," or the like.


Michael