I am in general against spreading misinformation; there already is so much of that on the internet, no one is longing for us to add more to it. The problem with posted piece values is that they are very often not rooted in reality, but spring purely from the imagination of the author. I don't see what value that would add to an article. Every reader should be able to make unfounded guesses without any help. And it is especially bad if people post values that contradict a large body of evidence.
If I were to edit the article on orthodox Chess, claiming that the piece values are P=1, minor=2, R=4 and Q=8, based on the theory that piece values are inversely proportional to the number of those pieces you have in a game... Should it be allowed to stand? Should it go accompanied by an explanation of how these were calculated? Or by a disclaimer like "virtually everyone in the world agrees that these values are very much off, but I present these here anyway for no other reason that I could calculate them through a method that did not require any experimental evidence"?
My brother always says: "if you don't have anything to say, then don't do that here!". Information should flow from where there is knowledge to where there is none. It is only useful to publish information that is better / more reliable than what the reader already has. Sadly, for piece values that will usually not be the case.
I am in general against spreading misinformation; there already is so much of that on the internet, no one is longing for us to add more to it. The problem with posted piece values is that they are very often not rooted in reality, but spring purely from the imagination of the author. I don't see what value that would add to an article. Every reader should be able to make unfounded guesses without any help. And it is especially bad if people post values that contradict a large body of evidence.
If I were to edit the article on orthodox Chess, claiming that the piece values are P=1, minor=2, R=4 and Q=8, based on the theory that piece values are inversely proportional to the number of those pieces you have in a game... Should it be allowed to stand? Should it go accompanied by an explanation of how these were calculated? Or by a disclaimer like "virtually everyone in the world agrees that these values are very much off, but I present these here anyway for no other reason that I could calculate them through a method that did not require any experimental evidence"?
My brother always says: "if you don't have anything to say, then don't do that here!". Information should flow from where there is knowledge to where there is none. It is only useful to publish information that is better / more reliable than what the reader already has. Sadly, for piece values that will usually not be the case.