[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 27, Issue 10

Tue Oct 4 09:23:50 UTC 2005

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actionforum at comcast.net wrote:
>> Tony Sidaway wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 10/3/05, Michael Turley wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Anyone have any good ideas of how better to encourage people to
>>>> cite sources?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Make verifiability a key policy, and egregious edit-warring to
>>> insert unsourced statements a blockable offence.
>>> 
>> 
>> Great idea!
> 
> 
> This would swing the balance too far in favor of the deletionists.
> The unsourced statement would have to be unreasonable.  Obvious
> common knowledge statements should not have to be sourced, and
> someone edit warring, demanding that every petty statement be sourced
> is being unreasonable, and should not be rewarded by being allowed to
> impose a burden upon other editors.

Oh, I don't know - we managed to find a source for the statement "the
Earth is round" :)

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