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Originally Posted by tdvance
someone at work expressed the theory that there isn't enough difference of opinion on mathematics to cause edit wars, and non-mathematics-knowledgeable people rarely even try to contribute to articles...the language of mathematics is abstruse enough that vandalism is hard to make subtle.
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To repeat: for reasons I have explained elsewhere in great detail, these are common misconceptions, and I believe my knowledge of mathematics, my record as an active Wikipedia contributor in 2006, and my carefully documented and thoughtful essays on the nature of Wikipedia and its failings as an information resource render it difficult to glibly dismiss my arguments as being based upon hostility to the goals of the open information movement, inexperience in the ways of Wikipedia, or hasty judgement.
[EDIT: to prevent possible misunderstanding: no-one at BAUT has suggested any of these things, and I didn't mean to imply anyone had done so here. I was trying to forestall (false) charges which have been leveled on previous occasions when I have tried to explain some of my concerns about Wikipedia.]