[WikiEN-l] "Reliable sources" guideline being treated as absolute policy

Tue Nov 28 09:47:04 UTC 2006

I just noticed that when creating a new article the explanatory text
that appears before the edit area ends in this bolded line:

> Articles that do not cite reliable published sources will be deleted.

with "reliable published sources" linking to [[Wikipedia:Reliable
sources]]. The promise of deletion is given in a rather absolute manner,
but "reliable sources" is a guideline and is therefore supposed to have
flexibility in its application. Could this line's wording be changed to
something that more accurately reflects this flexibility, or perhaps
link instead to [[Wikipedia:Verifiability]]?

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