[Taxacom] Wikipedia vs. science

[Jim Croft]

Tony, Tony... You clearly do not understand the process of data
aggregation. Data is never corrected at source. It is corrected
immediately upon aggregation (and never touched again if it can be
avoided) and then bragged about relentlessly by the aggregators at
every opportunity, saying how much bigger and better their data is
than anybody elses'. If at all possible, this is done while
simultaneously berating data providers about how individually
incomplete their data is and for not keeping their data up to date.

The Chronicles describe this is how The Ancients did it, and
predict... well, so far they are right on the money... ;)

jim

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:45 PM,  <Tony.Rees at csiro.au> wrote:
> Stephen, again pardon me if you have suggested this already, but how about aking the WoRMS editor/s to correct the mistake at source? That is what I normally do in such cases. Then if it is corrected relatively promptly, you can simply cite the corrected version... In any case, it is presumably better for all concerned if WoRMS is correct and not erroneous.