These ignorance-based incorrect answers are just the tip of the iceberg. The WikiAnswers operational model has also resulted in a lot of purposeful misinformation in climate answers, for reasons described by Skeptical Science author perseus , who has been active in attempting to answer climate questions on the site:. These volunteer Supervisors are given additional tools, known as "Super Powers", enabling them to make higher-level edits. Other roles contributing to quality management include Premier Answerers, Special Project Assistants , Mentors , Bug Catchers and those participating in special site-wide programs such as Vandal Patrol , Community Outreach.
Training Programmes are also available within these roles for new participants. Despite this extensive organisational structure, some subject areas on Wikianswers appear to have escaped even the most basic quality standards.
The answers related to climate change are particularly poor. Like perseus, I have attempted to correct the vast amounts of misinformation in some of the Answers.
There is one particularly egregious example in a question asking ' What are the most important greenhouse gases? As the question been locked by a Supervisor who filled it with misinformation, I could only list the many errors in the answer on the associated discussion page. I did so a month ago and have also sent a request to Answers. Schmidt et al. The current answer is based on a blog post by Gavin Schmidt, which he recently noted was based on calculations that "were not very sophisticated". On Aug.
A follow-up study published this year in Icarus Journal revealed that the moons are small, with an estimated diameter of 2 to 5 km, and orbit at and km from the primary. The convention for naming asteroidal moons is to pick a child or close relative of the historical figure after whom the asteroid is named. For example, the moons of the triple main-belt asteroid system 87 Sylvia are named Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome and twin sons of the Rhea Sylvia. Minerva was a virgin goddess who did not have descendants, however, which makes it impossible to follow this rule.
The decision to crowd-source the names caught the attention of the public, so whenever I had the opportunity I repeated the request when giving presentations to groups of amateur astronomers and in interviews to astronomy magazines.
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