User:John FitzGerald

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I am no longer active.

Wikipedia needs a regular review procedure. Articles are unintentionally vandalized by well-meaning people whose grasp of the topic is shakier than they think, and they stay uncorrected for weeks because no one else looks at them. Okay, I've done that myself. It's still not a good thing. My particular bugbear, and the article which was the chief cause of my leaving, is Reinforcement, which has been seriously damaged at least twice. It's a fundamental concept in psychology, but during the intervals between the damage and the correction Wikipedia has been giving people an erroneous idea of it.

I've been wrong before, of course (hell, I voted for Bob Rae). My best to all who think I'm wrong and are still working toward a better Wikipedia.

Reinforcement has been changed again. The current definition is wrong (and incompletely cited). It is not necessary for reinforcement to follow a response immediately. The important word contingent has been removed, too; a reinforcer is contingent on a response. What is the point of having an open text encyclopedia that is incorrect? John FitzGerald (talk) 14:28, 12 March 2008 (UTC)