Timeline for Will Aviation.SE ever become authoritative?
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| Mar 23, 2015 at 15:59 | comment | added | CGCampbell | I disagree with this, from a conceptual perspective. If someone wants to read about the basics of flight, they should (possible) visit wikipedia and do so. Or any of the other many sites which discuss them. We are not wikipedia. We should not attempt to duplicate it. If someone does go to a 'real' wiki site, and does their utmost best to understand what was taught, and has a question about something they don't understand.... then isn't that what we are, what we are for? | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 13:32 | comment | added | Erich | i agree with the weaker question - but this is actually intentional to drive more traffic, after asking myself what joe internet user would type into google to get here. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 13:29 | comment | added | Pondlife | @erich My bad, I didn't notice that you had 3 separate links there. But again, if the question "how do airplanes fly?" hasn't been asked then why not just ask it yourself? You may want to include a comment about why any existing questions don't already cover it, to help get a good answer with the level of detail you need. "How do airplanes work?" is a weaker question, by the way (IMHO), because it's potentially too broad to answer: is it about wings, engines, navigation systems, ...? | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 13:20 | comment | added | Erich | i'm just saying, aviation.se is noticeably absent from a google search on "how does an airplane work?" or "how do airplanes fly?". | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 13:18 | comment | added | Erich | i specifically linked 2/3 of those. the third is not a discussion of lift per se, but what is being taught. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 13:16 | comment | added | Pondlife | @erich, see here, here and here. And these are just three examples :-) | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 13:11 | comment | added | Erich | good points, esp. on perceived need. i was taking cues from other sites where certain wikified answers tend to get favorited by its users based on their continual usefulness (e.g. the "good references" on el&u or biblical hermeneutics). but also, if these questions are basic enough, they become a good entry point into the site itself, where additional questions can be browsed. besides, i was shocked to find that "how do airplanes fly?" has not been asked and answered here. i'd like to see aviation.se as the go-to place for this answer on the internet. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 13:00 | history | answered | Pondlife | CC BY-SA 3.0 |