[Taxacom] Wikipedia vs. science

[Geoff Read]

Except that WoRMS  is not a data aggregator such as that. It is mostly
editor driven and it is quite easy to ask for corrections in WoRMS.

Geoff

On Mon, May 14, 2012 11:33 pm, Jim Croft wrote:
> 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.