[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia broken

Fri Apr 7 10:33:44 UTC 2006

On 4/7/06, Steve Block <steve.block at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> No, I think what's being asked for is a group of people who will apply
> policy in a neutral way.  The votes are already stacked, that's the
> purpose of having policy; policy is the vote stacking tool, not the
> group of editors. RFC provides no comment, at least not at articles I've
> listed on it.  Actually, if I'm honest, I'm finding more and more that
> Wikipedia is imply broken.  We've got clear guidance at [[WP:RS]] that
> message boards aren't acceptable sources, and yet we've got thousands of
> articles that are relying on just that.  Either we need to rewrite our
> policies and have an anything goes policy, or we need to get a lot
> tougher in enforcing the key policies.

And if we want to be a serious encyclopaedia, it must be the latter.

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Sam