[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 38

Tue Dec 5 23:03:11 UTC 2006

On Dec 5, 2006, at 3:49 PM, wikien-l-request at Wikipedia.org wrote:

> From: Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net>
>
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Puppy wrote:
>> Excellent solution, may I borrow your prod content for my own use?
>
> Yes, but the case I'm worried about is one where the targeted  
> article is
> not libelous or about living people, still would have content if the
> questionable material is removed, and actually does have sources,  
> but which
> are not referenced in the recommended one-footnote-per-sentence  
> way.  The
> policy is letting people use the rules to disrupt by picking any of  
> that
> 80% of articles and saying "you'd better source this, now, or I put  
> your
> article up for deletion."

Nothing about the verifiability policy requires _inline_ sources.

And please stop asserting 80% of our articles are unsourced, when my  
informal check suggests that the number is more like 20%.