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

Tue Nov 28 12:37:16 UTC 2006

That wording seems to change from day to day. I'm not sure where the
discussion about its wording is held. For a while it insisted on
copyright violations. Sometimes it mentions nonsense, sometimes it
does. Sometimes it says "may be deleted", other times it's "will".

We have similar messages when you attempt to create a new article,
when you save one, at WP:AFC and probably numerous other places. We
should really standardise this stuff.

Steve

On 11/28/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/11/06, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
> <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> > We may need to audit deletions. I'm becoming uneasy about the quick paths.
> But a great deal of discretionary deletion does need to happen.
>
>
> Are there still people keeping an eye on speedies?
>
> (The idea being: speedy patrollers are dealing with a firehose of
> crap, and being human will make mistakes - and that's fine. Then the
> speedy patrol patrollers check the speedies and undelete the erroneous
> speedies - and that's fine too.)
>
>
> - d.
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